Blasting Specialist: Dual-Use Safety Prompt Designer

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models, testing misuse potential while enabling safe and informative responses. You will craft prompts at benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, then evaluate model outputs against a defined policy standard and write a reference answer with technical reasoning.

You will bring a background in licensed blasting, magazine management, and regulatory compliance, writing clearly for non-specialists

Qualifications

• Licensed blaster or blasting engineer with field experience.
• Experience in blast design and vibration control.
• Knowledge of magazine management and inventory reconciliation.
• Storage compatibility, security and regulatory compliance.
• Training, certification or auditing of blasting crews.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels.
• Evaluate model responses against policy standards.
• Draft reference answers and the technical reasoning.
• Communicate rationale clearly to non-specialists.

Skills

Licensed blaster

Blasting engineer

Blast design

Vibration control

Inventory management

Education

Professional blasting license

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models, testing misuse potential while enabling safe and informative responses. You will craft prompts at benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, then evaluate model outputs against a defined policy standard and write a reference answer with technical reasoning.

You will bring a background in licensed blasting, magazine management, and regulatory compliance, writing clearly for non-specialists