Blasting Engineer - AI Safety Red-Teaming Prompt Lead

Neon; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role involves writing prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial categories, and evaluating model responses against a policy standard.

You will draft reference answers with technical reasoning, ensuring the line between routine questions and potentially dangerous requests is clearly drawn. Strong technical writing and domain expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Licensed blaster or blasting engineer with field experience.
• Experience with blast design and vibration control.
• Background in magazine management and inventory reconciliation.
• Knowledge of storage compatibility, security and regulatory compliance for licensed operations.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in your domain, labelled benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard and judge handling accuracy.
• Write the reference answer and technical rationale to show correct response lines.

Skills

Licensed blaster

Blast design

Magazine management

Storage security

Training/certification auditing

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role involves writing prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial categories, and evaluating model responses against a policy standard.

You will draft reference answers with technical reasoning, ensuring the line between routine questions and potentially dangerous requests is clearly drawn. Strong technical writing and domain expertise are essential.