Adversarial AI Offensive 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: Red Team Specialist

Type: Full-time or Part-time Contract Work

Compensation: $29/hour

Location: Remote ; Geography restricted to USA, Brazil

Role Responsibilities

• Evaluate conversational AI models for vulnerabilities through 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 by producing 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

• Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Native-level fluency in English and Brazilian Portuguese.
• 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.
  
  
  

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
  
  
  

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.