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 responses handled technical requests correctly • Write reference answers and explain the technical reasoning behind them • Red-team frontier AI models on misuse-potential judgments • Sustain reading and writing about misuse scenarios in the field

🎯 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 • Relevant experience in solid, liquid, or hybrid propulsion system design, test, and qualification • Relevant experience in terminal effects modelling, including blast, fragmentation, or penetration • Relevant experience in fuzing, safe-and-arm, and initiation system engineering • Relevant experience in test range engineering and instrumentation for propulsion or ordnance • Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially harmful requests • Strong technical writing ability; every judgment requires a written rationale understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is strongly valued • Must provide a writing sample or link • Must not use classified, export-controlled, NDA-covered, or prepublication-review information in the work • Qualified applicants considered without regard to legally protected characteristics

🏖️ Benefits

• Up to $250 for each successful referral through the unique referral link • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty