[Hiring] Hazardous Device Expert @Mercor

Role Description

The Hazardous Device Specialist / Public Safety Professional will be responsible for:

• Writing challenging single-turn prompts in the domain of energetic materials and propulsion, labeling them as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluating responses against a defined policy standard and judging whether each response was handled correctly.
• Writing reference answers with technical reasoning for correct responses.
• Ensuring models refuse genuinely dangerous questions while answering legitimate ones fully.
• Working independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

• Certified bomb technician or hazardous device operator experience.
• Military EOD 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.
• Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience (preferred).

Company Description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include:

• Benchmark
• General Catalyst
• Peter Thiel
• Adam D'Angelo
• Larry Summers
• Jack Dorsey