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Mercor

Hazardous Device Specialist / Public Safety Professional

Mercor

. Write challenging single-turn prompts in the hazardous-device/public-safety domain .

Posted 9/21/2026contractRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $65 - $75 per hourWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in hazardous device assessment and public safety, with strong technical writing skills to communicate complex concepts clearly. Experienced in red-teaming AI models and evaluating responses against policy standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Certified Bomb TechnicianRed-Teaming ExperienceTechnical WritingHazardous Device AssessmentMilitary EOD Professional

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Hard Skills
Prompt WritingModel EvaluationResponse JudgingReference Answer WritingMisuse Scenario Analysis
Soft Skills
Strong Writing AbilityRational Communication
Certifications & Qualifications
Certified Bomb TechnicianCBRNE Technical Response Certification
Industry Keywords
Public SafetyHazardous DeviceEODPost-Blast InvestigationDevice Reconstruction

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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

What you’ll need
  • 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

Comp & perks
  • 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