AI Security Engineer | 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, 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)

• 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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