AI Security Analyst Remote $111/hr

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-Teamer

Type: Full-time or Part-time

Compensation: $50–$111/hour

Location: Remote-friendly (US time zones); Geography restricted to US, UK, Canada

Role Responsibilities

• Red-team AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and exploits.
• 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 to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
• Flex across projects to support different customers, from LLM jailbreaks to socio-technical abuse testing.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Prior red-teaming experience in AI adversarial work , cybersecurity , or socio-technical probing.
• Curiosity and adversarial instinct to push systems to breaking points.
• Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks.
• Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability to thrive across various projects and customers.

Preferred

• Experience with Adversarial ML , including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks , and model extraction.
• Cybersecurity skills in penetration testing, exploit development, and reverse engineering.
• Understanding of socio-technical risk, including harassment/disinfo probing and abuse analysis.
• Creative probing skills in psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor
• Compensation varies by project, customer, and content category.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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