Energetic Materials Chemist & AI Safety Red-Team

Neon; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Neon seeks a specialist in energetic materials to contribute to a red-team project focused on frontier AI model safety. You will craft prompts for benigh, dual-use, and adversarial categories, and judge model outputs against a defined policy standard.

Applicants should have background formulating and testing energetic materials in licensed facilities, with strong written communication and the ability to articulate technical rationales for safe handling and misuse boundaries.

Qualifications

• Formulated and tested specialty energetic materials in a licensed or government facility.
• Experience with sensitivity testing, calorimetry, or thermal stability assessments is preferred.
• Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from sensitive information in energetic materials.

Responsibilities

• Write prompts in benign, dual-use, and adversarial categories.
• Evaluate model responses against policy standards and document judgments.
• Draft reference answers and technical rationales showing safe handling boundaries.

Skills

Formulation chemist

Synthesis and characterization

Performance and sensitivity testing

Scale-up and process safety

Rocket propellant development

Education

Licensed or government facility experience

Job description

Neon seeks a specialist in energetic materials to contribute to a red-team project focused on frontier AI model safety. You will craft prompts for benigh, dual-use, and adversarial categories, and judge model outputs against a defined policy standard.

Applicants should have background formulating and testing energetic materials in licensed facilities, with strong written communication and the ability to articulate technical rationales for safe handling and misuse boundaries.