AI Security Specialist Remote $50/hr

🌍 Remote, USA 🎯 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

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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

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

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.

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.

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