AI Safety Specialist – Remote

Responsibilities

• ▹Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models
• ▹Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations and policy failures
• ▹Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content and other sensitive domains
• ▹Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports
• ▹Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness and safety

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy or a related field
• ▹5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism or life sciences
• ▹Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design skills and written communication
• ▹Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI Alignment or Trust & Safety
• ▹Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering or adversarial evaluation methodologies
• ▹Expertise in grey-area domains such as cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation or scientific safety

About the company

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs; headquartered in San Francisco, its investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.