Hazardous Device Specialist / Public Safety Professional

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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