Energetic Materials Scientist - AI Safety Red-Teaming

Obsidian; Paris; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones.

You will write prompts, evaluate the responses that come back against a defined policy standard, and write the reference answer — the technical reasoning for why.

Qualifications

• Formulation chemist for pyrotechnics, propellants or specialty energetic materials
• Synthesis and characterisation of energetic compounds in a licensed or government facility
• Performance and sensitivity testing — calorimetry, thermal stability, small-scale safety testing
• Scale-up and process safety for energetic material production
• Solid or liquid rocket propellant development — binders, oxidisers, burn-rate modifiers

Responsabilités

• Write challenging prompts labeled benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate the responses that come back against a defined policy standard.
• Write the reference answer — what a correct response looks like, and the technical reasoning.
• This is writing-intensive work; provide written rationales for each judgment.

Description du poste

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones.

You will write prompts, evaluate the responses that come back against a defined policy standard, and write the reference answer — the technical reasoning for why.