Explosives Engineer - AI Trainer

AfterQuery Experts; Canberra; Remote; AUD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

AfterQuery Experts is hiring explosives and energetic materials experts as contractors to help make AI models safer in their domain.

You will author prompts, review peer prompts, and write detailed domain analyses justifying safety judgments. This is a fully remote, contract-based engagement with flexible scheduling, and no sponsorship is available.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in a relevant field with explosives expertise.
• Five Eyes citizen and located in a Five Eyes country during work.
• Experience in explosives engineering or energetics is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Author prompts and scenarios to probe safe vs. unsafe requests in the field.
• Review and classify prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe.
• Write domain analysis justifying judgments on prompts.
• Revise work based on reviewer feedback.

Skills

Explosives engineering

Energetic materials research

Ordnance / blasting

Defense research experience

Education

MS in chemical/energetic materials

Job description

AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We are hiring explosives and energetic materials experts as contractors to help make AI models safer in their domain.

What You Will Actually Do

• Author prompts and scenarios that probe the boundary between safe and unsafe requests in your field
• Review and classify prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe
• Write the domain analysis behind each judgment: why a prompt is acceptable, or where it crosses a line and why
• Revise your work based on structured reviewer feedback

Who This Is For

• Master's degree or higher in chemical engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline, with expertise in explosives or energetic materials
• Citizen of a Five Eyes country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand
• Physically located in one of those five countries while doing the work
• Experience in explosives engineering, energetic materials research, ordnance, blasting, or defense research is a plus, not a requirement

Contract and pay

• $150/hr equivalent, paid at $85 per approved task
• Fully remote and asynchronous, on your own schedule
• Contract engagement, no sponsorship available