AI Red-Team Engineer Remote

About This Role

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 Part-time Contract Work Compensation: $32/hour Location: Remote (Geography restricted to USA, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE)

Role Responsibilities

• Red team conversational AI models and agents by conducting 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

• Native-level fluency in English & Arabic.
• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
• Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, or Socio-technical risk.
• Skills in Creative probing such as psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor, Paid weekly.

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.