Expert Work
CBRN Specialist, AI Safety Review
Status: Open
- Pay
- $35–$49/hr
- Location
- Remote — (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or European Union)
- Employment type
- Part-time
- Posted
- 2026-09-21
About this opportunity
Review how frontier AI models handle chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear questions, and decide what belongs in a safe answer. Remote, hourly, first batch about 10 hours. For CBRN professionals with three or more years in the field, based in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the EU.
Required skills
- CBRN
- Chemical safety
- Biosafety
- Radiation safety
- Nuclear safety
- Risk assessment
- Hazard communication
- Emergency preparedness
- AI safety review
- Professional English
What you'll do
- Assess AI answers on chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, hazardous-material and emergency-preparedness topics for technical accuracy and safe framing.
- Flag content that gives procedural detail, acquisition routes, weaponization support, unsafe lab guidance or harmful exposure advice.
- Flag the opposite failure too: refusals and hedged non-answers on legitimate professional and public-safety questions.
- Work primarily in your own hazard strand, while holding enough breadth to judge a request that crosses two of them.
- Rank competing model answers against each other and say what separates them.
- Write the reference answer: the response that handles a benign CBRN question properly without crossing into operational detail.
- Catch hallucinated claims, wrong hazard classifications, misstated exposure risks, bad escalation advice and overconfident conclusions.
- Apply the project rubric consistently and explain each call in writing.
- Escalate ambiguous or high-risk items for a second review rather than deciding alone.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a CBRN-adjacent field, or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in at least one CBRN strand (chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear)
- Names a primary hazard strand in the expert survey
- Based in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the European Union
- English at C1 or above, written and verbal
- Passes the expert survey before a bootcamp seat is allocated
- Available for the paid bootcamp on Monday and production from Tuesday
- Able to commit roughly 10 hours inside the first batch window, closing Sunday
- Joins the Sovrano Discord before the bootcamp
- Independent contractor, invoices Sovrano directly
Preferred qualifications
- A professional credential in your strand: CIH, CHP, biosafety officer certification, RSO appointment, Chartered Chemist, or equivalent.
- Practical work with GHS classification, biosafety levels, ALARA and source categorization, or IAEA safeguards.
- Emergency response, incident command or exercise experience.
- Prior AI safety, red-teaming, policy review or rubric-based evaluation work.