Remote Explosives & Forensic Materials Specialist (Contract)

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly contractor

Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Job summary

Mercor is hiring a Federal Certified Materials Specialist / Incident Analyst on a remote contract basis. The role involves crafting challenging prompts about energetic materials, labeling risk categories, and evaluating model outputs against policy standards.

Responsibilities include writing reference answers, conducting post-incident analysis, and ensuring safe model behavior. Strong technical writing and regulatory inspection experience are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Federally certified explosives specialist or national equivalent.
• Experience in forensic laboratory identification of energetic materials.
• Expertise in post-incident analysis and reporting for an agency or laboratory.
• Regulatory inspection experience of licensees and permittees.
• Strong technical writing or published research experience.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in the domain of energetic materials and propulsion. Label them as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard. Judge whether each response was handled correctly.
• Write reference answers, providing correct responses and technical reasoning.
• Analyze dual-use scenarios where residue analysis and diversion indicators are critical.
• Ensure models refuse dangerous questions while answering legitimate ones accurately.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and improve AI model performance.

Skills

Explosives cert

Forensic analysis

Technical writing

Education

Federally certified explosives specialist

Job description

Mercor is hiring a Federal Certified Materials Specialist / Incident Analyst on a remote contract basis. The role involves crafting challenging prompts about energetic materials, labeling risk categories, and evaluating model outputs against policy standards.

Responsibilities include writing reference answers, conducting post-incident analysis, and ensuring safe model behavior. Strong technical writing and regulatory inspection experience are highly valued.