Inside Mercor's AI Safety Talent Pipeline
AI labs depend on trusted evaluators and safety engineers. Mercor has carved out a dedicated pipeline for candidates who can ship evaluations, adversarial tests, and deployment guardrails.
If you are building an AI safety career, tap Mercor for warm intros and pair it with public contributions like red teaming write-ups and benchmark repos.
Map the Labs Hiring Now
- Check Mercor every Monday for new AI safety briefs-the listings often roll up under stealth programs or confidential labs.
- Shortlist roles that match your threat model expertise, whether it is jailbreak analysis, eval tooling, or policy liaison work.
- Claim the private invite to view full job details and recruiter contacts: Mercor private invite
Ship Proof of Work Weekly
- Publish a red-team report or evaluation notebook each week-recruiters weigh recent contributions heavily.
- Join open-source safety groups like Alignment Research Center discussions and link back to your Mercor profile.
- Record short Looms demonstrating how you stress test large language models or multimodal systems.
Prep for Deep-Dive Screens
- Expect multi-hour technical interviews that mirror real evaluation workflows.
- Use Mercor role briefs to anticipate scenario prompts and align on risk taxonomies.
- Bring a one-page plan outlining the eval dashboards or alerting pipelines you would implement in the first 90 days.
Next step: Level up further with our remote interview playbook tailored to technical operators. Rehearse the interview flow .