Propulsion & Effects Engineer
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Propulsion and effects engineer creating dual-use safety prompts and evaluating frontier AI responses. Applying real hardware and test-data expertise to distinguish legitimate requests from dangerous misuse.
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 responses were handled correctly
- Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them
- Distinguish routine professional questions from requests indicating potential misuse
- Apply real-world propulsion, initiation, and effects engineering expertise to red-team frontier AI models
Requirements:
- Experience designing, qualifying, or testing propulsion and initiation systems with real hardware and real test data
- Relevant background in munitions or warhead design and effects engineering
- Experience with solid, liquid, or hybrid propulsion system design, test, and qualification
- Experience with terminal effects modelling, including blast, fragmentation, or penetration
- Experience with fuzing, safe-and-arm, and initiation system engineering
- Experience in test range engineering and instrumentation for propulsion or ordnance
- Prior red-teaming experience ideally
- Strong technical writing ability; every judgment requires a written rationale understandable to non-specialists
- Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal
- Must not use classified, export-controlled, NDA-covered, or prepublication-review information
- Applicants with such obligations must disclose them so work can be scoped accordingly
- Must provide a technical writing sample or link if available
- Ability to read and write about misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods
- Qualified applicants considered without regard to legally protected characteristics
Benefits:
- Earn up to $250 for each successful referral; referral limits apply
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty
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