Blasting Specialist - Red-Team Prompt Writer

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will also draft reference answers and the accompanying technical rationale, ensuring clear justification for the line between legitimate questions and restricted information.

Qualifications

• Licensed blaster or blasting engineer.
• Blast design and vibration control.
• Magazine management, inventory reconciliation and transport of specialty materials.
• Storage compatibility, security and regulatory compliance for a commercial licensee.
• Training, certification or auditing of blasting crews.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in your domain, labelled across three levels: benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate the responses that come back against a defined policy standard, and judge whether each was handled correctly.
• Write the reference answer — what a correct response looks like, and the technical reasoning for why.

Job description

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

You will also draft reference answers and the accompanying technical rationale, ensuring clear justification for the line between legitimate questions and restricted information.