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Mercor

Industrial Hygienist / Process Safety Engineer

Mercor

. Write challenging single-turn prompts in industrial hygiene, chemistry, and chemical safety, labelled as benign, dual-use, or adversarial .

Posted 9/20/2026contractRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $65 - $75 per hourWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in industrial hygiene, chemical safety, and process hazard analysis, with strong technical writing skills to produce clear rationales for non-specialists. Capable of evaluating AI model responses and identifying misuse potential in technical requests.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Industrial Hygiene CertificationProcess Hazard Analysis (HAZOP, LOPA)Toxic Release and Dispersion ModellingTechnical Writing ExperienceRegulatory Compliance (PSM, Seveso, OSHA)

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Hard Skills
Chemical Safety AssessmentRisk EvaluationConsequence AnalysisVentilation DesignPPE Programme Design
Soft Skills
Strong Writing AbilityJudgment Skills
Certifications & Qualifications
Certified Industrial Hygienist
Industry Keywords
Regulatory ComplianceMisuse ScenariosAI Model EvaluationTechnical RationaleExposure Assessment

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Write challenging single-turn prompts in industrial hygiene, chemistry, and chemical safety, labelled as benign, dual-use, or adversarial
  • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard
  • Judge whether each response was handled correctly
  • Write reference answers explaining what a correct response looks like and the technical reasoning behind it
  • Red-team frontier AI models for misuse potential in technical requests
  • Produce written rationales that non-specialists can follow
  • Read and write about misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Relevant experience assessing real exposures and real process hazards, and signing off on controls
  • Examples of relevant backgrounds include certified industrial hygiene, process hazard analysis (HAZOP, LOPA, what-if studies, management of change), toxic release and dispersion modelling (consequence analysis, AEGL/ERPG criteria, facility siting), ventilation, containment and PPE programme design for chemical hazards, and regulatory compliance (PSM, Seveso, COMAH, OSHA or national equivalents)
  • Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially dangerous misuse-oriented requests
  • Strong writing ability; every judgment must include a written rationale understandable to a non-specialist
  • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal
  • Please include a writing sample or link
  • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations
  • Applicants with such obligations must disclose them so the work can be scoped accordingly

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