AI Safety Specialist - Fully Remote

Responsibilities

• ▹Designing adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models
• ▹Identifying jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures
• ▹Evaluating model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains
• ▹Documenting vulnerabilities and contributing to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports
• ▹Collaborating with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or a related field
• ▹Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication skills
• ▹Experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, or AI Alignment
• ▹Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies
• ▹Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including 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.