We are looking for AI Safety Experts — English & Finnish candidates for a project delivered through Mercor.
What you'll do
- Red team conversational AI models and agents, including jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, bias exploitation, and multi-turn manipulation.
- Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and flagging systemic risks.
- Apply structure to testing by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to ensure consistency.
- Document findings reproducibly by producing reports, datasets, and attack cases for customer action.
What you need
- Prior red teaming experience, including AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
- Curiosity and an adversarial mindset, with the ability to instinctively push systems to their breaking points.
- A structured approach to testing, utilizing frameworks or benchmarks.
- Clear communication skills to explain risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptability to thrive when moving across different projects and customers.
Nice to have
- Specialization in Adversarial ML, including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, and model extraction.
- Specialization in Cybersecurity, including penetration testing, exploit development, and reverse engineering.
- Specialization in Socio-technical risk, including harassment/disinformation probing, abuse analysis, and conversational AI testing.
- Skills in creative probing, such as psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.
Expertise
red teamingAI adversarial workcybersecuritysocio-technical probingstructured testingAdversarial MLpenetration testingexploit developmentreverse engineeringSocio-technical risk analysisconversational AI testingcreative probing
RequiredAlso useful
Also listed: communication, adaptability.
Who you work with
Project and contracting process: Mercor. Applications continue on the provider's website.

