Energetic Materials Chemist - AI Trainer

AfterQuery Experts; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 295,000 - 442,000; Full time

Job summary

AfterQuery Experts is seeking explosives and energetic materials experts to work as contractors. You will author prompts and scenarios, review and classify prompts from peers, and develop detailed domain analyses explaining safety judgments.

This work is fully remote and contract-based, with asynchronous collaboration and no sponsorship. The role targets individuals with advanced degrees in chemical engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, or related fields, possessing expertise in

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in chemical engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline with expertise in explosives or energetic materials.

Responsibilities

• Author prompts and scenarios that probe the boundary between safe and unsafe requests in your field.
• Review and classify prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe.
• Write the domain analysis behind each judgment: why a prompt is acceptable, or where it crosses a line and why.
• Revise your work based on structured reviewer feedback.

Education

Master's degree or higher in STEM fields with explosives/energetic materials expertise

Job description

AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We are hiring explosives and energetic materials experts as contractors to help make AI models safer in their domain.

What You Will Actually Do

• Author prompts and scenarios that probe the boundary between safe and unsafe requests in your field
• Review and classify prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe
• Write the domain analysis behind each judgment: why a prompt is acceptable, or where it crosses a line and why
• Revise your work based on structured reviewer feedback

Who This Is For

• Master's degree or higher in chemical engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline, with expertise in explosives or energetic materials
• Citizen of a Five Eyes country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand
• Physically located in one of those five countries while doing the work
• Experience in explosives engineering, energetic materials research, ordnance, blasting, or defense research is a plus, not a requirement

Contract and pay

• $150/hr equivalent, paid at $85 per approved task
• Fully remote and asynchronous, on your own schedule
• Contract engagement, no sponsorship available