Overview

Think like a hacker to build a safer future for technology. Mercor is linking top tier creative and technical minds with pioneering AI research labs from our home base in San Francisco, backed by heavyweights like Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. We are currently hunting for an AI Safety Red Teamer Expert to join our network on a contract basis. This is a fully remote, worldwide opportunity that lets you work from anywhere on the planet while shaping the guardrails of the next generation of artificial intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models.
Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures.
Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains.
Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.
Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety.

Requirements

Hold a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
Bring at least 5 years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, or life science.

What You'll Gain

Enjoy complete location independence with this remote role while earning a competitive hourly rate between $70 and $84. You will get a front row seat to cutting edge artificial intelligence development, working alongside world class researchers and helping steer the ethical boundaries of powerful new tools.