AI Red Teamer (Remote)
Remote$32/hr - $95/hrFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
AI Red Teamer focused on stress-testing large language models by creating adversarial prompts to expose vulnerabilities, safety gaps, and robustness issues across diverse risk categories.
Responsibilities
- Craft creative prompts and multi-turn scenarios to stress-test AI guardrails across diverse risk categories
- Discover ways around safety filters, restrictions, and defenses using jailbreak, evasion, and prompt injection techniques
- Explore edge cases to provoke disallowed, harmful, or incorrect outputs
- Evaluate and score model responses against structured harm taxonomies and severity rubrics
- Document experiments clearly, including what you tried, why you tried it, and what it revealed
- Review and refine adversarial prompts generated by other team members
- Contribute to harm taxonomy development, calibration exercises, and inter-rater reliability work
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and researchers to share findings and strengthen defenses
- Work with potentially disturbing content on a regular basis
- Stay current on jailbreaks, attack methods, and evolving model behaviors
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience using multiple LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, open-source models, etc.)
- Intuition for crafting adversarial prompts; familiarity with jailbreak or evasion techniques is a strong plus
- Creative, adversarial problem-solving skills
- Clear and thoughtful written communication
- Strong ethical judgment and the ability to separate adversarial thinking from personal values
- Self-directed, collaborative, and comfortable in feedback-heavy environments
- Curiosity, persistence, and comfort with frequent failure in experimentation
Skills
Required:Adversarial prompt engineeringModel evaluation and harm taxonomyDocumentation and reportingCollaboration with engineers/researchersEthical judgment in adversarial work
Benefits
- Compensation: $32 – $95 per hour
- Remote work option (USA)
- W-2 hourly employment through TCWGlobal
- Flexible hourly structure with standardized ranges for U.S.-based roles
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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