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: Red Team Specialist
Type: Full-time or Tempo parziale 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

- Fluent Language Skills Required: English & Italian. Native-level fluency in English and Italian is required.




- Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
- Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptability to move across projects and customers.

Preferred

- Experience in Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, and socio-technical risk analysis.
- Skills in jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, and model extraction.

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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