Hazardous Device Specialist / Public Safety Professional
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Job Description
Hazardous-device experts red-teaming Mercor’s frontier AI models. Writing dual-use prompts, evaluating safety responses, and documenting technically grounded reference answers.
Responsibilities:
- Write challenging single-turn prompts in the hazardous-device/public-safety 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
- Red-team frontier AI models for misuse-potential assessment
- Sustain reading and writing about misuse scenarios in the field
Requirements:
- Background as a certified bomb technician or hazardous device operator, military EOD professional with civilian public-safety, training or instruction experience, bomb squad commander or training officer, post-blast investigator/device reconstruction specialist, or CBRNE technical response professional
- Experience assessing real devices, particularly render-safe and post-incident work
- Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from malicious or inappropriate requests
- Red-teaming experience ideally
- Strong writing ability and ability to provide rationales understandable to non-specialists
- Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal
- Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations
- Must disclose such obligations so work can be scoped accordingly
- Must provide a technical writing sample or link if available
Benefits:
- Earn up to $250 for each successful referral
- No limit on how many people you can refer (restrictions may apply)
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty








