Explosives AI Safety Engineer — Remote Contract

AfterQuery Experts; Christchurch; Remote; NZD 308,000 - 438,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

We seek a Master’s or higher in a related field with explosives/energetic materials expertise. This fully remote, asynchronous contract role offers flexibility and an opportunity to influence safety across AI systems.

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.

Skills

Explosives/energetic materials

Education

Master's degree or higher in chemical engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, or related field

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.

We seek a Master’s or higher in a related field with explosives/energetic materials expertise. This fully remote, asynchronous contract role offers flexibility and an opportunity to influence safety across AI systems.