Blasting Specialist: AI Safety Red-Teaming & Prompt Design

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. You will craft challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, then evaluate model responses against a policy standard and write the reference answer with the accompanying technical reasoning.

This role demands precise, written justification accessible to non-specialists. The ideal candidate has a background in licensed practices handling specialty materials, strong

Qualifications

• Excellent written communication for technical audiences.
• Ability to produce structured prompts across benign/dual-use/adversarial.
• Experience writing rationales for non-specialists.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial categories.
• Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard and judge correctness.
• Write the reference answer with the technical reasoning for why it’s correct.

Skills

Technical writing

Policy analysis

Misuse/dual-use risk assessment

Red-team prompts

Domain knowledge in blasting/energetic

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. You will craft challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, then evaluate model responses against a policy standard and write the reference answer with the accompanying technical reasoning.

This role demands precise, written justification accessible to non-specialists. The ideal candidate has a background in licensed practices handling specialty materials, strong