AI Red Team Specialist

About This Role

Join Mercor as an AI Red Team Specialist to identify vulnerabilities in conversational AI models, generate high-quality human data, and document findings to improve model performance for leading AI research labs.

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

Requirements

• Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing
• Native-level fluency in English and Chinese (Mandarin)
• Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to thrive on moving across projects and customers

Nice to Have

• Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction
• Background in Cybersecurity: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering
• Expertise in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing
• Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking

Skills

* Required skills