Environmental Health Safety Specialist

@ Crossing Hurdles

About Environmental Health Safety Specialist

Crossing Hurdles is a recruitment firm referring top candidates to our partners working with the world’s leading AI research labs. The position is an hourly contract role focused on operational EH&S and safety duties in a remote environment.

Role Responsibilities

• Annotate AI outputs against safety criteria such as bias, misinformation, disallowed content, and unsafe reasoning.
• Apply operational safety principles from EH&S background to AI systems and data evaluation.
• Follow harm taxonomies and safety guidelines consistently even in ambiguous tasks.
• Document reasoning and provide feedback to improve guidelines and taxonomies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide high-quality human data for AI safety research and model improvements.
• Optionally participate in higher-sensitivity projects ensuring adherence to guidelines and wellness resources.

Requirements

• Background in lab safety, biosafety, or environmental health and safety (EH&S).
• Experience in compliance management, hazard training, or incident investigations.
• Knowledge of safety protocols, accident prevention, and incident documentation.
• Ability to adapt operational safety methods to AI systems and data evaluation.
• Proven ability to work remotely and adapt to evolving workflows.

Application Process

• Upload your resume.
• Participate in an AI interview based on your resume.
• Submit the required form (approx. 20 minutes total).

Key skills/competency

EH&S, safety criteria, annotation, compliance, AI systems, incident investigation, documentation, remote work, hazard training, biosafety