Hazardous Device Specialist / Public Safety Professional
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Hazardous-device and public-safety professionals red-teaming Mercor’s frontier AI models. Writing dual-use prompts, evaluating responses, and documenting technically grounded reference answers.
Responsibilities:
- Write challenging single-turn prompts in the hazardous devices/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 and explain the technical reasoning behind them
- Red-team frontier AI models for misuse-potential assessment
Requirements:
- Background as a certified bomb technician or hazardous device operator, military EOD 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 hazardous devices, particularly on the render-safe and post-incident side
- Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially malicious requests
- Strong writing skills and ability to provide written 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 any such obligations so the work can be scoped accordingly
Benefits:
- Up to $250 per successful referral
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty











