Hazardous Device Specialist, Public Safety Professional

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 10%

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

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📋 Description

• 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