AI Safety Red-Teaming Blasting Specialist

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. You will write prompts labeled across three levels: benign, dual-use, and adversarial, and evaluate responses against a policy standard.

You will also draft the reference answer with the technical reasoning for why it is correct. This role emphasizes rigorous written justification for each judgment and sustained work with misuse scenarios in a regulated domain, with sample work and

Qualifications

• Licensed blasting or blasting engineer background.
• Experience with blast design and vibration control.
• Magazine management and transport of specialty materials.
• Storage compatibility, security and regulatory compliance experience.
• Training, certification or auditing of blasting crews.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels.
• Evaluate model responses against a policy standard and judge handling correctness.
• Draft reference answers with technical reasoning.

Skills

Blasting engineer

Blast design

Magazine management

Storage compliance

Training & auditing

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. You will write prompts labeled across three levels: benign, dual-use, and adversarial, and evaluate responses against a policy standard.

You will also draft the reference answer with the technical reasoning for why it is correct. This role emphasizes rigorous written justification for each judgment and sustained work with misuse scenarios in a regulated domain, with sample work and