Industrial Hygienist / Process Safety Engineer (Remote)
Listing checked September 15, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Overview
The project brings chemistry and chemical safety experts onto a panel that red-teams frontier AI models. You write single-turn prompts across three levels, benign, dual-use, and adversarial, then judge model replies against a defined policy standard. Every call needs a written reference answer that shows what a correct response looks like and the technical reason behind it. The work sits on the dual-use line: the same dispersion model that supports facility siting can also estimate a release consequence, so you decide when a question stays routine and when it crosses into misuse.
What You'll Do7
- 1Write single-turn prompts drawn from industrial hygiene or process safety, tagging each as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
- 2Review model replies against the policy standard and mark whether each response handled the request as the policy requires.
- 3Draft reference answers that show the ideal reply and explain the technical reasoning behind it.
- 4Build prompt sets that probe exposure assessment, sampling strategy, control banding, HAZOP, LOPA, what-if studies, management of change, consequence analysis, AEGL/ERPG criteria, ventilation, containment, PPE programs, and rules such as PSM, Seveso, COMAH, and OSHA.
- 5Separate routine professional questions from queries that fish for harmful detail, using examples from release modeling or hazard analysis.
- 6Write rationales that a non-specialist can follow, including why a refusal is wrong or why an answer is unsafe.
- 7Read and write about misuse scenarios in your field for sustained blocks, with the freedom to pause or step away at any point.
Requirements10
- 1Hands-on work assessing real exposures or process hazards and signing off on controls.
- 2Certified industrial hygienist background in exposure assessment, sampling strategy, and control banding.
- 3Process hazard analysis experience with HAZOP, LOPA, what-if studies, and management of change.
- 4Toxic release and dispersion modeling for consequence analysis, AEGL/ERPG criteria, and facility siting.
- 5Design of ventilation, containment, and PPE programs for chemical hazards.
- 6Regulatory compliance knowledge across PSM, Seveso, COMAH, OSHA, or national equivalents.
- 7Technical writing samples, published research, or expert witness work that shows clear explanation.
- 8Red-teaming experience preferred.
- 9Ability to read and write about misuse scenarios for long periods.
- 10No use of classified, export-controlled, NDA-covered, or prepublication material, and a duty to disclose any such obligations before work starts.
Who Should Apply
The best fit has assessed real exposures and process hazards, signed off on controls, and can tell a routine professional question from one seeking harmful detail. You need comfort writing detailed rationales that a non-specialist can follow, plus a strong sample of technical writing, published research, or expert witness work. The role suits practitioners who can commit to sustained reading and writing about misuse scenarios in their field. A poor match is a generalist without direct chemical safety experience, or anyone who cannot explain why a model response should be refused instead of answered. Candidates often lose fit when their prompt examples stay generic, such as a vague safety question with no HAZOP, exposure assessment, or dispersion detail, or when they judge a response without tying it to a named policy standard.
Salary Insight
The listing pays $75 as a one-time task fee, not an hourly or yearly salary. For short expert red-teaming assignments, that figure matches a single prompt-and-review deliverable rather than a full project. If you expect ongoing work, treat this as one scoped task with pay set at the start.
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