Specialty Materials Chemist – Pyrotechnics, Propulsion

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🔥 17 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 9%

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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 specialty energetic materials and propulsion 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 explaining what a correct response looks like and the technical reasoning behind it • Red-team frontier AI models for misuse-potential assessment • Sustain reading and writing about misuse scenarios in the field

🎯 Requirements

• Specialty materials chemistry experience in pyrotechnics, propellants, or specialty energetic materials • Formulated, synthesised, and tested specialty energetic materials in a licensed or government facility • Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially harmful requests • Experience with formulation of pyrotechnics, propellants, or specialty energetic materials • Experience synthesising and characterising energetic compounds in a licensed or government facility • Experience with performance and sensitivity testing, including calorimetry, thermal stability, and small-scale safety testing • Experience with scale-up and process safety for energetic material production • Experience developing solid or liquid rocket propellants, including binders, oxidisers, and burn-rate modifiers • Strong technical writing ability; every judgment must include a rationale understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is strongly preferred • Must not use classified, export-controlled, NDA-protected, or prepublication-review information in the work • Must disclose such obligations so the 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