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 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, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
- 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 by producing 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**
- Prior red teaming experience in **AI adversarial work**, **cybersecurity**, or socio-technical probing.
- Native-level fluency in **English** and **Chinese (Mandarin)**.
- Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive on moving 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.
- Creative probing skills: 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: [email protected]
- PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.*
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