AI Safety Expert - Red TeamMercor · Oslo, Norway

AI Safety Expert - Red Team

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-08 Oslo, Norway Contract Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary 7,680 NOK–9,920 NOK/mo (92,160 NOK–119,040 NOK/yr) 📊 Market 65,000 NOK–95,000 NOK/mo

About the Company

Organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. We're also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems. Software Development Specialties: AI model training, AI evaluation, Expert talent curation, Custom AI agents, Frontier models, Enterprise AI deployment

Responsibilities

  • ● 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 & Norwegian
  • ● Type: Contract
  • ● Compensation: 48- 62/hour
  • ● Role Responsibilities
  • ● Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
  • ● Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
  • ● Apply structure using taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain consistent testing.
  • ● Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
  • ● Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
  • ● Fluent in English & Norwegian.
  • ● 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.
  • ● Ability to adapt and thrive across various projects and customers.
  • ● Application Process (Takes 20-30 mins to complete)
  • ● Upload resume
  • ● AI interview based on your resume
  • ● Resources & Support