Cybersecurity Risk Management Analyst

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: $50/hour

Location: Remote; Geography restricted to USA, Japan

Commitment: 20+ hours/week

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

Fluent Language Skills Required: Native-level fluency in English & Japanese.

Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).

Ability to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Adaptability to move across projects and customers.

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.

Skills in Creative probing: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Compensation & Legal

Hourly contractor, Paid weekly via Stripe Connect.

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