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// POSTED: Apr 14, 2026

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Analyst

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• *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-Teamer • *Type:** • *Full-time or Part-time** • *Compensation:** • *$50–$111/hour** • *Location:** • *Remote-friendly (US time zones); Geography restricted to US, UK, Canada** • *Role Responsibilities** • Red-team AI models and agents through jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and exploits. • 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 to produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on. • Flex across projects to support different customers, from LLM jailbreaks to socio-technical abuse testing. • *Qualifications** • *Must-Have** • Prior red-teaming experience in AI adversarial work, cybersecurity, or socio-technical probing. • Curiosity and adversarial instinct to push systems to breaking points. • Structured approach using frameworks or benchmarks. • Strong communication skills to explain risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Adaptability to thrive across various projects and customers. • *Preferred** • Experience with Adversarial ML, including jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, and model extraction. • Cybersecurity skills in penetration testing, exploit development, and reverse engineering. • Understanding of socio-technical risk, including harassment/disinfo probing and abuse analysis. • Creative probing skills in psychology, acting, or writing for unconventional adversarial thinking. • *Compensation & Legal** • Hourly contractor • Compensation varies by project, customer, and content category. • *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: [email protected] • PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.*
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