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Hazardous Device Specialist – Public Safety Professional

Job not on LinkedIn

🕒 September 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

Where this job comes from

Posted on Mercor's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship September 17

Still open on Mercor's site. Checked 5 hours ago.

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Mercor

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in the hazardous-device and public-safety domain • Label prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard • Judge whether each response was handled correctly • Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them • Test whether frontier AI models can assess the misuse potential of technical requests • Provide written rationales that non-specialists can follow • Read and write about misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods

🎯 Requirements

• Background as a certified bomb technician or hazardous device operator • Military EOD experience with civilian public-safety, training, or instruction experience • Bomb squad commander or training officer experience • Experience in post-blast investigation and device reconstruction • CBRNE technical response experience, including standoff assessment, robotics, and disruption tools • Experience assessing real devices on the render-safe and post-incident side under certification and command accountability • Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from requests probing for misuse • Strong writing skills and ability to provide written rationales understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal; applicants should include a sample or link • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations • Applicants holding such obligations must disclose them so the work can be scoped accordingly

🏖️ Benefits

• Earn up to $250 for each successful referral • No limit on how many people you can refer (restrictions may apply) • Ability to pause or step away from the work at any point without penalty • Reasonable accommodations upon request

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