Propulsion & Effects Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

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📋 Description

• 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