AI Red-Team Engineer Remote $50/hr

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Red Team Specialist

Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work

Compensation: $50/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 20+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.
• Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
• Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native-level fluency in English and French .
• Prior experience in red teaming, AI adversarial work , cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
• Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to thrive on moving across projects and customers.

Preferred

• Experience with Adversarial ML , Cybersecurity , and socio-technical risk analysis.
• Skills in penetration testing , exploit development, and reverse engineering.
• Background in creative probing such as psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor , Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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