• *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:** AI Red Team Specialist
• *Type:** **Full-time or Part-time Contract Work**
• *Compensation:** **$50/hour**
• *Location:** **Remote**; Geography restricted to USA, Japan
• *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**
• **Fluent Language Skills Required:** Native-level fluency in **English** & **Japanese**.
• Prior experience in **red teaming** (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability to move across projects and customers.
• *Preferred**
• Experience in **Adversarial ML**: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
• Background in **Cybersecurity**: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Expertise in **Socio-technical risk**: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Skills in **Creative probing**: psychology, acting, 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
• *Resources & Support**
• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to:
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• PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.*
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