AI Security Analyst – Remote $111/hr

**About The Job**

• *Mercor**

connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include

• *Benchmark**

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• *General Catalyst**

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• *Peter Thiel**

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• *Adam D'Angelo**

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• *Larry Summers**

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• *Jack Dorsey**

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• *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)**
• 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: support@mercor.com
• PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.*

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