Propulsion & Effects Engineer

At a glance

Pay

$65–$75 per taskStated by Mercor Experts

Location

Remote

Experience

Hands-on design, qualification or testing of propulsion and initiation systems

Work type

Writing / editing

Listed

Sep 15 to Oct 23

The work

Write test prompts at three risk levels in your specialty to probe how AI models handle sensitive technical requests.

What you would do

• Write prompts at benign, dual-use and adversarial levels of misuse risk
• Grade model responses against a set policy standard for correct handling
• Write reference answers

You're a fit if you

• have worked on design, qualification or testing of propulsion and initiation systems
• can distinguish ordinary professional questions from probing ones with another intent
• have a background in warhead or munitions design and effects work
• have engineered fuzing, safe-and-arm or initiation systems

Summarised by HumanSourcer from Mercor Experts’ listing. Check the listing before you apply.

From Mercor Experts’ listing

“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.”