Propulsion & Effects Engineer

atMercorRemoteUS flagUnited StatesFreelanceEngineerMid-levelSenior$65 – $75/hour

Posted 15 hours ago

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Craft intricate single-turn prompts within the propulsion and effects sector.

• Classify prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.

• Assess model outputs against a specified policy standard.

• Evaluate whether responses accurately addressed technical inquiries.

• Develop reference answers and articulate the technical rationale behind them.

• Differentiate between standard professional inquiries and those that may suggest potential misuse.

• Maintain ongoing reading and writing on misuse scenarios within the industry.


⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in designing, qualifying, or testing propulsion and initiation systems using actual hardware and test data.

• Relevant expertise in munitions or warhead design and effects engineering; design, testing, and qualification of solid, liquid, or hybrid propulsion systems; terminal effects modeling; fuzing, safe-and-arm, and initiation system engineering; or engineering and instrumentation for test ranges related to propulsion or ordnance.

• Strong preference for candidates with technical writing experience, published research, or expertise as an expert witness.

• Submission of a technical writing sample or link is required.

• Capability to produce rationales that are comprehensible to non-specialists.

• Must refrain from utilizing classified, export-controlled, NDA-covered, or prepublication-review information.

• Obligations regarding classified information must be disclosed to appropriately scope the work.


🏝️ Benefits

• Receive up to $250 for each successful referral.

• Reasonable accommodations available upon request.

• Opportunity to pause or disengage from misuse-scenario work at any moment without penalty.

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