Bilingual Adversarial AI Analyst (Ciudad de México)

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 – Full‑time or Part‑time Contract Work.

Location

Remote, Commitment: Versatile hours.

Compensation

$26 per hour.

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 structured approaches 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: Native‑level fluency in English and Spanish.
• Prior red‑teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio‑technical probing.
• Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks.
• Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability to thrive across projects and customers.
• Preferred: Experience in Adversarial ML – jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
• Background in Cybersecurity – penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
• Expertise in socio‑technical risk – harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
• Creative probing skills – psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.

Compensation & Legal

Hourly contractor, paid weekly.