Military Operations and IHL Expert

You will help create responsible ways to evaluate AI systems used in defense and humanitarian settings. The work combines military operations knowledge, conflict ethics, targeting law, and international humanitarian law.

You will turn complex operational and legal issues into clear guidance for AI training and evaluation. Your analysis may be shared with people from different professional backgrounds.

• Develop taxonomies covering military use and defense operations across different conflict settings.
• Create frameworks that distinguish military applications of technology from civilian applications.
• Define prohibited assistance under international humanitarian law and convert those boundaries into AI evaluation guidance.
• Design conflict-risk rubrics and scenario-based tools for operational and ethical assessment.
• Evaluate and improve benchmarks for testing AI models in defense and humanitarian contexts.
• Write and discuss clear analyses of warfighting, targeting, and international humanitarian law concepts.

This is remote, part-time contract work open to candidates in the countries specified for the role. English fluency is required for the written and verbal analysis.

• Pay: $50 to $90 per hour.
• Work arrangement: Remote, part-time contract work.
• Location: Open to candidates in the listed countries; this role is not worldwide.
• Experience: At least five years in military work, defense analysis, or international humanitarian law.
• Expertise: Conflict ethics, international humanitarian law, defense policy, operational planning, targeting law, or humanitarian-law application.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal skills for explaining technical and ethical concepts precisely.
• Helpful qualifications: An MA, LLM, PhD, or equivalent operational experience in military science, security studies, international law, or a related field.
• Valued background: Research, policy analysis, advisory work, conflict analysis, war-crimes investigations, or weapons-policy development.
• Senior contributors may have eight to twenty years of relevant experience and a record of credible operational, legal, policy, or humanitarian analysis.

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