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AI Adversarial Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $62/hr

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Fully RemoteEngineeringSweden

Salary

$576–$744

Posted

3h ago

Source

himalayas

AI Safety EngineeringRed Team SecurityAI TestingCybersecurityAI Research

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 Safety Experts — English & Swedish
Type:Contract
Compensation:$48–$62/hour
Location:Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
  • 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 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

  • Fluent in English and Swedish.
  • Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing.
  • Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred

  • Experience with Adversarial ML, Cybersecurity, and Socio-technical risk.
  • Skills in Creative probing such as psychology, acting, or unconventional adversarial thinking.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

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

Salary in context

This salary range is below the typical band for remote Engineering roles — comparable roles on RemoteTide top out closer to $150k.

Before you apply

  • Confirm async-friendly culture vs daily standup-heavy expectations
  • Ask about on-call rotation and incident expectations
  • Check the tech stack matches what you actually want to use day-to-day

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