Propulsion & Effects Engineer
Posted 1 day ago
You'll complete your application on Mercor's career site.
About the Role
This role involves working as a red-team evaluator for advanced AI systems, specifically focusing on the fields of propulsion and energetic materials. Your main goal is to test the ability of these models to distinguish between safe, professional technical questions and requests that could compromise safety or security. You will navigate the complex area of dual-use technology, helping the system provide useful engineering information while adhering to strict safety protocols. By utilizing your industry expertise, you will calibrate the model's responses, ensuring it can handle standard research inquiries while correctly identifying and refusing hazardous prompts. You will be tasked with designing and reviewing tests that force the AI to maintain this delicate balance.
Requirements
- You must have extensive professional background in the testing, development, or qualification of propulsion and initiation hardware, preferably with direct experience handling physical test data.
- You should have specific knowledge in fields such as munitions design, terminal effects like penetration and blast, or the development of fuzing and safe-and-arm mechanisms.
- You need strong technical writing skills to explain your evaluations and reasoning clearly to those without your specific subject matter expertise.
- Experience in publishing research, technical writing, or acting as a professional expert witness is considered a significant asset.
- You are strictly required to use only public domain sources, meaning you must avoid any use of classified, proprietary, or export-controlled information.
Responsibilities
- You will create complex single-turn prompts that range from benign to dual-use and adversarial within your area of expertise.
- You will review the responses provided by the AI and assess them based on predefined safety and policy criteria.
- You will write detailed reference answers that outline the accurate technical logic required to guide the model's output quality.
- You will conduct thorough analysis and documentation of potential misuse scenarios, ensuring all technical records are precise and clear.
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