CBRN Specialist
Up to $100/hr
Remote writing contract with SME Careers, up to $100/hr, open to people in Australia, Austria, Belgium and 28 more countries. First seen Oct 28.
Up to $100/hr
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- Pay
- Above typicalTops out at $100/hr. The typical top rate across 80 priced writing listings is $68/hr.
- Getting in
- Some screening~30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview. Credentials in your field.
- Steady work
- Work is patchyProjects can end a placement for quality issues.
- Payout record
- Pays on timeSchedule: weekly. Paid via Deel.
- Freshness
- No post dateSME Careers doesn't publish post dates. First seen Oct 28, 2026; still listed Nov 6, 2026.
- Where you live
- Named countries onlyOpen in Australia, Austria, Belgium and 28 more.
The job description
In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a CBRN Specialist (SME) to review AI-generated content related to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear safety topics and/or create high-quality reference content that supports safe, accurate, policy-aligned AI behavior. You will evaluate technical accuracy, safety framing, terminology, risk awareness, and reasoning quality while providing precise written feedback.
You will assess outputs for correctness, clarity, responsible handling of hazardous topics, appropriate refusal/redirection where needed, and adherence to project guidelines. You will identify errors in CBRN terminology, hazard classification, emergency preparedness, exposure risk, protective measures, public-safety communication, regulatory framing, and scientific interpretation. You will also flag unsafe, operationally enabling, misleading, or overconfident content and help ensure that model responses remain useful without providing dangerous instructions.
This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your CBRN expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their responses safer, more accurate, more responsible, and better aligned with public-safety expectations.
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.
How do you apply to SME Careers?
Apply on SME Careers
The Apply button opens this post on SME Careers's own site. You apply with them, not with Rubric. Budget about 30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview.
Get through screening
What SME Careers asks for after you apply:
- Do the ~15-minute English AI video interview on a desktop (up to 3 attempts)
- Take any written or video qualification exam
- Sign the Deel contract and join Discord
- Wait for a project offer by email
Start work and get paid
Pay schedule: weekly. Paid via Deel. You're paid for the work they hand out, not a fixed salary.
SME Careers also needs
- Credentials in your field
- Desktop with webcam
- Deel account
Red flags
None on record for SME Careers. A real platform never asks you to pay for training, equipment or a "starter kit".
What is SME Careers like to work for?
SuperAnnotate's expert-hiring site, which places credentialed specialists on hourly AI training contracts paid through Deel.
| Advertised pay | $20–130/hr |
|---|---|
| Getting in | Some screening |
| Application takes | ~30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview |
| How you get paid | Weekly, via Deel |
| Payout record | Pays on time |
| Countries | Hires in nearly 90 countries, including India, Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines; sanctioned countries are excluded and some projects set region or language rules. |
Listings show only an 'up to' rate: about $20/hr for generalists, $60/hr software, $90/hr healthcare and $110/hr legal; your actual rate depends on credentials and location.