Forensic Explosives Prompt Engineer & Analyst

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor in London assembles a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models, testing misuse potential of technical requests while ensuring safe, compliant answers. The role involves writing prompts at benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, evaluating model outputs against a policy, and drafting the reference answers with clear justification for each decision.

You will bring a background in legally sensitive material analysis, regulatory inspection, or

Qualifications

• Experience identifying materials after the fact under a national certification.
• Ability to write clear rationales for non-specialists.
• Background in regulatory inspection or expert testimony is a strong signal.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels.
• Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard.
• Draft reference answers and technical reasoning for misuse scenarios.

Skills

Red-teaming experience

Technical writing

Forensic analysis

Explosives knowledge

Education

Explosives certification

National certification

Job description

Mercor in London assembles a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models, testing misuse potential of technical requests while ensuring safe, compliant answers. The role involves writing prompts at benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, evaluating model outputs against a policy, and drafting the reference answers with clear justification for each decision.

You will bring a background in legally sensitive material analysis, regulatory inspection, or