AML QA 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:
AI Red Team Specialist
Type:
Full-time or Part-time Contract Work
Compensation:
$26/hour
Location:
Remote
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 probe AI models with adversarial inputs and surface vulnerabilities.

Qualifications
Must-Have

• Fluent Language Skills Required: Native-level fluency in English & Spanish.
• Prior experience in red teaming (AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, socio-technical probing).
• Ability to communicate risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in Adversarial ML: jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
• Cybersecurity skills: penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Socio-technical risk expertise: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor, Paid weekly via Stripe Connect.

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.*