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 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