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Red-Teaming QA Lead for AI Safety and Evaluation

Up to 100/hr
Remote
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Posted September 12, 2026
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Listing checked September 14, 2026 · pay as published by SME Careers

Key details

Pay
Up to $100/hr
Location
RemoteUnited States
Job type
contract
Posted
September 12, 2026

Overview

As a remote Red-Teaming QA Lead, you guide quality and consistency across AI red-teaming and safety-evaluation work performed by a distributed contractor team. You review ai red-teaming outputs, assess adversarial prompts and risk classifications, and provide precise written feedback to keep guidelines aligned. You’ll maintain project rubrics, coordinate updates for trainers and QAs, and manage documentation across a fast-moving remote workflow using Discord, Google Sheets, and dashboards. This hourly contract role supports SME Careers’ AI data services and helps improve safety training data for leading models.

What You'll Do10

  • Conduct ongoing quality monitoring of red-teaming submissions and provide actionable feedback to contributors.
  • Evaluate adversarial prompts, model outputs, risk classifications, and safety analyses for accuracy and usefulness.
  • Update trainers and QA reviewers on updated guidelines and project changes via Discord messages and trackers.
  • Respond to questions about risk categories, adversarial strategies, policy boundaries, and rubric interpretation with clear, timely answers.
  • DM inactive contributors to encourage re-engagement and track follow-ups.
  • Create and maintain red-teaming project documentation, including style guides, FAQs, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials.
  • Lead onboarding and training calls to align teams on project expectations and review standards.
  • Ensure consistent application of red-teaming and safety-review guidelines as projects evolve.
  • Flag unsafe, low-quality, or poorly documented items for remediation.
  • Identify recurring quality gaps and propose scalable QA improvements.

Requirements10

  • bachelor’s, master’s, or professional experience in computer science, cybersecurity, ai safety, trust & safety, public policy, psychology, linguistics, law, security studies, risk analysis, or related field.
  • strong English to follow guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear written feedback.
  • 3+ years in ai safety, red-teaming, cybersecurity, trust & safety, content policy, risk analysis, adversarial testing, model evaluation, content moderation, or related workflows.
  • deep understanding of ai risk categories, adversarial prompting, jailbreak patterns, harmful-content taxonomies, misuse scenarios, policy interpretation, model behavior, and safety evaluation principles.
  • ability to evaluate red-teaming content against rubrics and identify issues such as weak adversarial design, unrealistic scenarios, poor risk categorization, policy misinterpretation, unsafe outputs, or superficial vulnerability testing.
  • familiarity with prompt injection, social engineering, cybersecurity abuse, fraud, self-harm safety, extremist content, misinformation, privacy risk, illicit behavior, bias, and model refusal behavior is preferred.
  • experience leading or supporting remote teams of red-teamers, reviewers, policy analysts, annotators, researchers, or QAs is strongly preferred.
  • comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
  • highly detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, calibration tasks, and documentation.
  • experience with ai training, llm evaluation, safety evaluations, content moderation qa, policy qa, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.

Who Should Apply

Candidates with 3+ years in ai safety or red-teaming and a track record leading remote QA or policy-review work fit best. You should deeply understand ai risk categories and how to apply detailed rubrics to assess adversarial prompts. You thrive in a fully remote, fast-moving setting and can coordinate distributed contributors using Discord and Google Sheets. This role is less suitable for applicants who prefer on-site work or lack experience coordinating remote teams and policy interpretation.

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Pay is $100 per hour. This hourly rate aligns with mid-senior level remote contract roles focused on AI safety QA and red-teaming.

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Adversarial TestingAI Red TeamingAI SafetyLLM EvaluationPolicy EvaluationPrompt EngineeringRisk AssessmentSafety TaxonomiesTrainer FeedbackTrust & SafetyRemote Team LeadershipDiscordGoogle SheetsDocsQaRed TeamingContent ModerationPolicy QaRubric Based ReviewJailbreak TestingMisinformation AnalysisPrivacy Risk AssessmentModel EvaluationRisk AnalysisSafety GuidelinesCalibration TasksOnboarding Materials

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