Remote Forensic Materials Specialist & Incident Analyst

Embedded Shishya; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Federal Certified Materials Specialist / Incident Analyst for a remote contract role in the United States. The candidate will craft prompts in energetic materials, assess AI model outputs against policy standards, and generate detailed reference answers with technical reasoning.

Responsibilities include analyzing dual-use scenarios, ensuring refusals for dangerous queries, and delivering work asynchronously to meet tight deadlines.

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

Forensic analysis

Technical writing

prompts writing

Evaluation of model responses

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Federal Certified Materials Specialist / Incident Analyst for a remote contract role in the United States. The candidate will craft prompts in energetic materials, assess AI model outputs against policy standards, and generate detailed reference answers with technical reasoning.

Responsibilities include analyzing dual-use scenarios, ensuring refusals for dangerous queries, and delivering work asynchronously to meet tight deadlines.