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Military Writing Specialist

St. Louis, MO

Military Writing Specialist

Are you interested in teaching next-gen AI models to write about defense-related topics? 

About the Opportunity: 

Scale's public sector business is growing rapidly, with significant growth powered by customer demand for Donovan, Scale’s AI LLM platform for defense. At Scale, when it comes to performant large language models (LLMs) designed for defense, we know that domain specialists power these AI tools. As a Military Writing Specialist, you will be responsible for producing and grading written content that will train AI models for government use cases. 

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of AI-powered writing for the U.S. government!

Responsibilities:

  • Train AI models by crafting and answering questions related to intelligence, operations, logistics, or other similar military disciplines and domains 
  • Leverage your domain expertise to evaluate and critique corpora of text produced and written by AI systems
  • Attend regular training sessions for upskilling and quality alignment on writing projects
  • Integrate feedback from expert instructors into your written work

Minimum qualifications:

  • 5 years minimum experience in military occupation specialties related to planning, logistics, or intelligence
  • Experience writing professionally using military and formal Department of Defense writing styles 
  • Ability to work 20-40 hours per week
  • Resume submission detailing your military experience 

Compensation, Duration, and Benefits:

  • Compensation: $26/hour based on experience and qualifications
  • 6-month contract (possibility to renew) 
  • Remote or Hybrid Office Schedule, depending on performance 

Interview Process

The interview process for this role will consist of 5 steps: 

  • (1) Submission of your resume and writing samples
  • (2) Phone screen with a recruiter/hiring manager  
  • (3) Submission of a take-home assessment 
  • (4) Behavioral and Quality interviews 
  • (5) Outcome 

 

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The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of St. Louis is:

$26 - $26 USD

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About Us:

At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI.  Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

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Writing Sample Submission - Provide a short (400-500 words) professional-style writing sample. This can be an article you submitted for publication, a paper for a course, or some other form of academic or professional writing. If you do not have an appropriate piece, feel free to write on a military topic of your choice.

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The purpose of the South African nuclear weapon programme was largely political. The actual military use of the few weapons was a remote possibility. As stated by the government on numerous occasions, the programme had three planned phases. Phase 1 was to create and maintain uncertainty about whether South Africa even had nuclear weapons, based on the assumption that such ambiguity itself would function as a deterrent. Phase 2 was to make the capability known by declaring it to the USA. This would provide South Africa with leverage over the USA. Moreover, if the USA knew, then the story would certainly leak, enforcing the deterrent effect. Phase 3 would be to carry out an underground test to prove capability. This plan was still in effect in 1988, when Armscor had the desert test shaft at Vastrap renovated, even though it was no longer secret and was under observation by Soviet and US satellites.10 It is interesting to note that these were all political options stated by the civilian government, but there was no mention of a military mission. Clearly, it is convenient after the fact to not mention that these were awesome weapons of war. High-level South African hosts working with the IAEA also made it clear that abrogation of agreements by the USA and sanctions pushed South Africa to adopt an independent foreign policy, to innovate and to lose trust in the USA. For example, the USA abrogated its fuel-supply agreement for the SAFARI-1 (the South African Fundamental Atomic Research Installation) reactor in 1977.

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