AI Safety Specialist

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MercorAI safety
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: LithuaniaContractSenior
Salary70 - 84 USD per hour
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or a related field.
Required Skills
CybersecurityPrompt Engineering

Requirements

  • Hold a bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
  • Have 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or a related field.
  • Demonstrate strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication skills.
  • Have experience designing adversarial prompts or evaluating frontier AI systems.
  • Preferred: Experience with AI Red Teaming, RLHF, SFT, AI Alignment, or Trust & Safety.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
  • Preferred: Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.

Responsibilities

  • Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models.
  • Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviors, hallucinations, and policy failures.
  • Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains.
  • Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety.
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