Propulsion & Effects Engineer
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Propulsion and effects engineer creating dual-use safety prompts and evaluating frontier AI responses. Mercor uses expert panels to test AI misuse judgment.
Responsibilities:
- Write challenging single-turn prompts in the propulsion and effects domain
- Label prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial
- Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard
- Judge whether each response was handled correctly
- Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them
- Produce written rationales that non-specialists can follow
- Apply professional expertise to distinguish legitimate technical questions from dangerous misuse requests
Requirements:
- Background designing, qualifying, or testing propulsion and initiation systems with real hardware and real test data
- Relevant experience in munitions or warhead design and effects engineering; solid, liquid, or hybrid propulsion system design, test, and qualification; terminal effects modelling; fuzing, safe-and-arm, and initiation system engineering; or test range engineering and instrumentation for propulsion or ordnance
- Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially malicious requests
- Strong technical writing skills; every judgment must include a rationale understandable to a non-specialist
- Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is strongly preferred
- Include a writing sample or link
- Ability to read and write about misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods
- Must not use classified, export-controlled, NDA-covered, or prepublication-review information
- Candidates with such obligations must disclose them so work can be scoped accordingly
Benefits:
- Earn up to $250 for each successful referral
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty
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