Hazardous Device Specialist, Public Safety Professional
Posted 19hrs ago
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Job Description
Hazardous-device specialist creating and evaluating dual-use prompts for Mercor’s frontier AI safety models. Writing reference answers and technical rationales for public-safety scenarios.
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 and explain the technical reasoning behind them
- Create assessments that distinguish legitimate professional requests from dangerous requests
- Provide written rationales understandable to non-specialists
- Work within restrictions excluding classified, export-controlled, NDA-covered, or prepublication-review information
- Pause or step away from misuse-scenario work when needed without penalty
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 hazardous devices, including render-safe and post-incident work
- Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from requests seeking harmful information
- Strong technical writing skills
- Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal
- Include a writing sample or link
- Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations
- Ability to read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods
- Red-teaming experience ideally
- Must be able to write for non-specialist audiences
Benefits:
- Up to $250 per successful referral
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario content without penalty











