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Senior DoD Staff Writing SME
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About the Role
micro1 is engaging Senior DoD Staff Writing SMEs to contribute expert knowledge and writing skills to a pivotal customer project. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters.
What You'll Do
- Develop and provide well-structured prompts, input artifacts, and golden responses for diverse Department of Defense (DoD) staff writing tasks such as WARs, SITREPs, executive summaries, and performance reports.
- Create grading guidelines to evaluate and score AI-generated outputs, ensuring alignment with DoD standards and expectations for accuracy, tone, and compliance.
- Produce authentic report artifacts reflecting the style, structure, and language used in real-world DoD documentation across a range of operational and administrative scenarios.
- Contribute to the design and review of test materials that evaluate AI capabilities in summarizing and reporting tasks typically performed by federal personnel.
- Engage in feedback cycles to refine prompts, responses, and grading rubrics based on project needs and model performance.
- Leverage back-office and communication experience to simulate weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reporting formats familiar to federal organizations.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: military writing, federal documentation standards, report generation and evaluation, grading rubric development, written and verbal communication, department of defense procedures, collaborative remote work, compliance best practices
- Former federal contributor for the U.S. Department of War (Department of Defense), with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
- Experience producing key reporting artifacts such as Weekly Activity Reports (WARs), Situation Reports (SITREPs), executive summaries, and similar standard formats.
- Background in one of the six branches of the U.S. military, with diversity of experience across different roles and units preferred.
- Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication, with clear attention to detail and audience-appropriate language.
- Familiarity with back-office tools and processes, including the production and formatting of PowerPoint briefings, memos, Excel summaries, and related documentation.
- Strong analytical skills for evaluating and providing constructive feedback on AI-generated staff writing outputs.
- US-based with an understanding of federal compliance, reporting requirements, and DoD-specific terminology and workflows.
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