Hazardous Device Specialist – Public Safety Professional
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Job Description
Hazardous device specialists red-teaming Mercor’s frontier AI models. Writing dual-use prompts and evaluating whether responses safely handle public-safety technical requests.
Responsibilities:
- Write challenging single-turn prompts in the hazardous devices and public safety domain
- Label prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial
- Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard
- Judge whether model responses handled technical requests correctly
- Write reference answers explaining 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:
- Certified bomb technician or hazardous device operator experience
- Military EOD experience with civilian public-safety, training, or instruction experience
- Bomb squad commander or training officer experience
- Post-blast investigation and device reconstruction experience
- CBRNE technical response experience, including standoff assessment, robotics, and disruption tools
- Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially malicious requests
- Strong technical writing ability; every judgment requires a written rationale 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
- Relevant red-teaming experience is ideally preferred
- Must include a writing sample or link if available
Benefits:
- Up to $250 for each successful referral
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Ability to pause or step away from sensitive misuse content at any point without penalty











