Senior Blasting Engineer & AI Safety Red-Teaming Expert

Mercor; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; 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 (benign, dual-use, adversarial), evaluate model responses against a policy standard, and craft a reference answer with the technical reasoning.

Qualifications

• Licensed blaster or blasting engineer — mining, quarrying, construction or demolition
• Blast design and vibration control — timing, burden, seismograph monitoring, regulatory limits
• 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.

Skills

red-teaming

technical writing

expert witness

Education

Licensed professional

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 (benign, dual-use, adversarial), evaluate model responses against a policy standard, and craft a reference answer with the technical reasoning.