Hazardous Devices Red-Team Specialist

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones.

You will write prompts at three levels, evaluate responses, and craft reference answers with detailed reasoning, all while adhering to safety and policy standards.

Qualifications

• Public safety professionals who have assessed real devices — the render-safe and post-incident side, held under certification and command accountability.
• What matters most is telling routine professional questions from ones that are fishing for something else; the same assessment that makes a device safe explains how it was built.
• You will also be reading and writing about misuse scenarios in your field for sustained periods.

Responsibilities

• Write prompts that sit exactly on the line between benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate responses against a policy standard.
• Write the reference answer with technical reasoning.

Skills

Red-teaming experience

Public safety background

Technical writing

Education

Certified bomb technician or hazardous device operator

Military EOD training

Bomb squad leadership training

Post-blast investigation training

CBRNE technical response

Tools

Robotics

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones.

You will write prompts at three levels, evaluate responses, and craft reference answers with detailed reasoning, all while adhering to safety and policy standards.