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AI Safety Specialist - Remote | Upto $84/hrMercor · Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
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AI Safety Specialist - Remote | Upto $84/hr

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-11 Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal Contract Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary 11,200 EUR–13,440 EUR/mo (134,400 EUR–161,280 EUR/yr) 📊 Market 14,560 EUR–18,320 EUR/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 Red Teamer
  • ● Type: Contract
  • ● Compensation: 70- 84/hour
  • ● Role 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.
  • ● Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Journalism, Communications, Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
  • ● + years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or a related field.
  • ● Strong analytical reasoning, prompt design, and written communication skills.
  • ● Familiarity with jailbreak testing, prompt engineering, or adversarial evaluation methodologies.
  • ● Expertise in one or more grey-area domains, including cyber, biosecurity, political content, misinformation, or scientific safety.
  • ● Application Process (Takes 20-30 mins to complete)
  • ● Upload resume
  • ● AI interview based on your resume