AI Security Analyst Remote $111/hr

🌍 Remote, USA 🎯 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

Job Description

*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-Teamer
*Type:** **Full-time or Part-time**
*Compensation:** **$50–$111/hour**
*Location:** **Remote-friendly (US time zones); Geography restricted to US, UK, Canada**
*Role Responsibilities**
Red-team **AI models** and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and exploits.
Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistent testing.
Document reproducibly to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
Flex across projects to support different customers, from **LLM jailbreaks** to socio-technical abuse testing.
*Qualifications**
*Must-Have**
Prior red-teaming experience in **AI adversarial work**, **cybersecurity**, or socio-technical probing.
Curiosity and adversarial instinct to push systems to breaking points.
Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks.
Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Adaptability to thrive across various projects and customers.
*Preferred**
Experience with **Adversarial ML**, including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, **RLHF/DPO attacks**, and model extraction.
**Cybersecurity** skills in penetration testing, exploit development, and reverse engineering.
Understanding of socio-technical risk, including harassment/disinfo probing and abuse analysis.
Creative probing skills in psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.
*Compensation & Legal**
**Hourly contractor**
Compensation varies by project, customer, and content category.
*Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)**
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