AI Red Team Specialist - Remote | Upto $25/hr

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📍 United States
💰 USD 17 - 25 / hourly
📅 Posted 2026-08-30 · via Himalayas
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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 Safety Experts — English & Indonesian
Type: Contract
Compensation: $17–$25/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities

- Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.

- Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.

- Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.

- Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.

Qualifications

Must-Have

- Fluent in English and Indonesian .

- Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work , cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing.

- Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

- Experience in Adversarial ML : jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.

- Background in Cybersecurity : penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.

- Knowledge of socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

- Upload resume

- AI interview based on your resume

- Submit form

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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