Hazardous Device Specialist / Public Safety Professional

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

Posted 4 days ago

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

πŸ“‹ Description

β€’ Create complex single-turn prompts within the hazardous-device and public-safety sector.

β€’ Classify prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.

β€’ Assess model outputs against an established policy benchmark.

β€’ Evaluate if responses were managed appropriately.

β€’ Develop reference answers that explain correct responses and the underlying technical rationale.

β€’ Conduct red-team exercises on frontier AI models to evaluate misuse potential.

β€’ Maintain ongoing reading and writing about misuse scenarios in the relevant field.


⛳️ Requirements

β€’ Experience as a certified bomb technician or hazardous device operator, military EOD expert with civilian public safety training or instruction, bomb squad leader or training officer, post-blast investigator/device reconstruction specialist, or CBRNE technical response expert.

β€’ Proven experience in assessing actual devices, especially in render-safe and post-incident operations.

β€’ Capability to differentiate between standard professional inquiries and harmful or inappropriate requests.

β€’ Ideally possess red-teaming experience.

β€’ Excellent writing skills with the ability to articulate rationales that are comprehensible to non-specialists.

β€’ Previous technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is highly regarded.

β€’ Must refrain from using classified or export-controlled information, NDA-protected information, or data subject to prepublication review requirements.

β€’ Required to disclose any such obligations to appropriately scope work.

β€’ A technical writing sample or link must be provided if available.


🏝️ Benefits

β€’ Earn up to $250 for every successful referral.

β€’ There is no cap on the number of referrals you can make (restrictions may apply).

β€’ Reasonable accommodations available upon request.

β€’ Opportunity to pause or withdraw from misuse-scenario work at any time without facing penalties.

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