Senior Blasting Engineer - AI Safety Red-Teaming

Mercor; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor in Sydney, Australia, is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role centers on writing challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, and evaluating model responses against a policy standard.

You will also draft reference answers and the reasoning, ensuring clear, non-ambiguous guidance. This is highly writing-intensive, involving sustained analysis of misuse scenarios with opportunities to demonstrate

Qualifications

• Licensed practitioners who handle, store and move specialty materials on a daily basis.
• Ability to tell routine professional questions from deep misuse scenarios.
• Experience in training, certification, or auditing blasting crews is a strong signal.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in three levels: benign, dual-use, adversarial.
• Evaluate responses against a policy standard and judge handling.
• Write a reference answer with technical reasoning.

Skills

Red-teaming

Prompt engineering

Technical writing

Licensed practitioner

Blasting engineering background

Job description

Mercor in Sydney, Australia, is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role centers on writing challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, and evaluating model responses against a policy standard.

You will also draft reference answers and the reasoning, ensuring clear, non-ambiguous guidance. This is highly writing-intensive, involving sustained analysis of misuse scenarios with opportunities to demonstrate