CBRN Specialist
About this role
Type: Contract
Location: Remote
Skills & technologies
CBRN
English
Chemical Safety
Biological Safety
Radiological Safety
Nuclear Safety
AI Safety
Risk Review
Hazard Communication
Emergency Preparedness
Key responsibilities
Review CBRN-related AI content: Evaluate AI-generated responses involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, hazardous-material, emergency-preparedness, and public-safety topics for accuracy, safety, and guideline alignment.
Identify unsafe or enabling content: Flag outputs that provide dangerous procedural detail, acquisition guidance, weaponization support, evasion tactics, unsafe lab guidance, harmful exposure advice, or other misuse-enabling content.
Develop safe reference content: Create gold-standard examples that answer benign CBRN questions responsibly while avoiding operationally dangerous instructions.
Optimize AI safety behavior: Evaluate and rank model outputs based on safe handling, correct risk framing, appropriate refusals, helpful redirection, scientific accuracy, and clarity.
Ensure model integrity: Detect hallucinated claims, incorrect hazard classifications, misleading risk statements, overconfident conclusions, poor escalation guidance, or unsafe recommendations.
Support policy-aligned review: Apply project rubrics consistently and provide clear written feedback explaining why content is safe, unsafe, incomplete, or technically incorrect.
Maintain technical quality: Ensure CBRN-related content uses precise terminology, avoids exaggeration or minimization of risks, and communicates safety information in a responsible, user-appropriate way.
Escalate sensitive cases: Flag ambiguous, high-risk, or potentially harmful content for additional review according to project guidelines.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Public Health, Toxicology, Nuclear Engineering, Radiation Science, Emergency Management, Environmental Health & Safety, Biosecurity, Security Studies, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Strong professional proficiency in English, minimum C1, to follow guidelines and provide detailed written feedback in English.
3+ years of professional experience in CBRN safety, emergency preparedness, hazardous materials, biosafety, radiation safety, public health, environmental health and safety, defense/security analysis, technical review, or related work.
Strong understanding of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazard categories, including safe high-level risk assessment, exposure pathways, protective concepts, emergency communication, and public-safety principles.
Ability to evaluate CBRN-related AI outputs for accuracy, safety, completeness, policy alignment, and potential misuse risk.
Comfortable identifying unsafe instructions, operationally enabling details, inappropriate specificity, misleading hazard claims, inaccurate emergency advice, or unsupported technical conclusions.
Familiarity with safety frameworks, emergency-response concepts, biosafety levels, hazardous-material communication, radiation protection principles, decontamination concepts, incident reporting, and public-health guidance is preferred.
High attention to detail when reviewing terminology, units, exposure concepts, risk levels, safety disclaimers, escalation guidance, and sensitive technical boundaries.
Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
Prior experience with AI safety, data annotation, technical QA, policy review, risk assessment, red-team review, scientific review, or rubric-based evaluation is strongly preferred.
Originally posted on Himalayas