Information Security Engineer

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: AI Red Team Specialist

Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work

Compensation: $14/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: Flexible hours

Role Responsibilities

Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases.

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 to produce 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 and Hindi.

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.

Preferred

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.

Compensation & Legal

Hourly contractor

Paid weekly

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