Explosives & Energetic Materials AI Safety Auditor

SME Careers; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking explosives and energetic materials professionals to audit how AI models respond to sensitive questions in the field. The role involves classifying requests, marking safety, and ranking model responses across dual-use or adversarial contexts.

Open only to eligible regions and with a strong background in chemistry, energetic materials, or safety engineering. Candidates should have 3+ years of hands-on experience in explosives safety or related fields, and possess excellent

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Energetic Materials, Explosives Engineering, Safety Engineering, Hazardous Materials Management, Environmental Health & Safety, or closely related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience in explosives safety, energetic materials, hazardous materials safety, chemical safety, defense safety, industrial safety, EHS, regulatory compliance, risk assessment, technical safety review, or related work.
• Strong understanding of explosives and energetic materials safety concepts, including hazard classification, sensitivity, compatibility, storage principles, transport considerations, environmental conditions, blast/fire risk, and safe handling frameworks.
• Familiarity with safety documentation and frameworks such as Safety Data Sheets, GHS hazard communication, hazardous materials classification, SOPs, risk assessments, incident escalation procedures, and applicable safety/regulatory guidance.
• Ability to review AI-generated explosives or energetic-materials content for technical accuracy, safety alignment, misuse risk, inappropriate specificity, hallucinated claims, and potentially dangerous procedural guidance.
• Strong judgment in distinguishing between safe high-level educational or safety content and content that could enable unsafe handling, synthesis, acquisition, weaponization, evasion, or harmful experimentation.
• Excellent written English skills, with the ability to provide clear, structured feedback explaining why a response is safe, unsafe, incomplete, misleading, or technically incorrect.
• High attention to detail when reviewing terminology, hazard categories, material properties, units, risk assumptions, safety controls, storage/transport considerations, and emergency-response guidance.
• Comfortable applying detailed project rubrics consistently across ambiguous or sensitive scenarios involving explosives, energetic materials, pyrotechnics, propellants, reactive chemicals, or hazardous mixtures.
• Prior experience with AI safety, red-team review, model evaluation, content moderation, data annotation, technical QA, scientific review, EHS review, hazardous-materials review, or rubric-based evaluation is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts in various topics and responses to guide AI learning, ensuring the models reflect a comprehensive understanding of diverse subjects.
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance the model's accuracy, fluency, and contextual relevance.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI models for potential inaccuracies or biases, validating their reliability across use cases.

Skills

Explosives safety

Hazardous materials handling

Safety documentation & compliance

Technical safety review

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Energetic Materials, Explosives Engineering, Safety Engineering, Hazardous Materials Management, EHS or related field

Job description

SME Careers is seeking explosives and energetic materials professionals to audit how AI models respond to sensitive questions in the field. The role involves classifying requests, marking safety, and ranking model responses across dual-use or adversarial contexts.

Open only to eligible regions and with a strong background in chemistry, energetic materials, or safety engineering. Candidates should have 3+ years of hands-on experience in explosives safety or related fields, and possess excellent