Position: Red Team Specialist

Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work Compensation: $56/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 20+ hours/week Role Responsibilities

• Evaluate conversational AI models for vulnerabilities such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, 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 ensure consistent testing.
• Document reproducibly by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
• Collaborate with AI research teams to improve model safety and robustness.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Fluent Language Skills Required: English & German
• Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and adapt across projects and customers.

Preferred

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

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor
• Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

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

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