Specialty Materials Chemist — Pyrotechnics or Propulsion
Neon
$65 – $75 · as listed
Specialty Materials Chemist — Pyrotechnics or Propulsion
Neon is seeking advanced chemists with expertise in energetic materials or propulsion systems for remote, task-based AI safety work. You'll develop technical prompts designed to evaluate how AI models handle sensitive requests in your field—distinguishing between legitimate scientific questions and those with clear misuse potential. This role contributes to AI alignment by testing whether frontier models can refuse appropriately while maintaining helpfulness on valid inquiries.
The work suits experienced chemists comfortable writing detailed, technically sound scenarios across multiple difficulty levels. You'll draw on deep domain knowledge to create realistic edge cases that challenge AI systems to make nuanced safety judgments. This is gig-based, fully remote, and compensated at $65–$75 per task as listed.
From the listing: Mercor marketplace · task-based. ## About the work Mercor is assembling a panel of energetic materials and propulsion experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones. You will: - Write challenging single-turn prompts in your domain, labelled across three leve
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