Military Operations & IHL Expert

$50–90/hr

rate as listed

Workload: ~15h/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: Worldwide
Field: Legal

Apply military operations, targeting, defense-policy, and international humanitarian law expertise to the evaluation of AI systems. The work includes building taxonomies, triage frameworks, risk rubrics, scenarios, and benchmarks for military and humanitarian contexts.

The work

This remote contractor role focuses on creating structured material for training and evaluating AI systems in defense-policy and humanitarian-law contexts. Day-to-day work may include developing military-use taxonomies, classifying dual-use applications, defining boundaries for prohibited assistance under international humanitarian law (IHL), and writing scenarios that test operational and ethical reasoning.

Evaluation responsibilities

You will design conflict-risk rubrics, assess policy-relevant benchmarks, and refine evaluation criteria for military, civilian, and dual-use cases. The work also requires concise written and verbal analysis of warfighting, operational planning, weapons targeting, conflict ethics, defense policy, and IHL for interdisciplinary audiences.

What the screening is likely to examine

Expect detailed questions about your military, legal, policy, research, or advisory record. A strong screen will require verifiable examples, careful application of IHL to fact patterns, defensible distinctions between military and civilian uses, and the ability to explain how an evaluation framework handles uncertainty and disagreement. Prior AI experience is not required.

Logistics

The engagement is remote and structured as contractor work. The listing does not specify whether work is fully asynchronous or state typical weekly hours, so candidates should be ready to give concrete availability and clarify scheduling expectations during the process.

Pay band: $50–90/hr

What they look for

War Fighting
Weapons Targeting
Defense Operations
Humanitarian Law

Included with this listing

Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: This tests whether your claimed domain depth is grounded in identifiable roles, responsibilities, conflict contexts, and work products rather than broad familiarity with defense or humanitarian issues.
A strong answer: Give a concise chronology with years, organizations or organization types, substantive responsibilities, and two or three relevant outputs or decisions. Distinguish direct operational or legal responsibility from research, observation, or support work.
Where people lose it: Candidates lose points by presenting adjacent national-security experience as direct targeting or IHL application without explaining what they personally analyzed, advised on, or produced.

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