Nuclear Engineering, Safeguards Expert – Red Team
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Nuclear experts red-teaming Mercor’s frontier AI models with safeguards and nonproliferation scenarios. Writing adversarial prompts, evaluating responses, and documenting technical rationales.
Responsibilities:
- Write challenging single-turn prompts in the nuclear domain, labeled benign, dual-use, or adversarial
- Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard
- Judge whether responses were handled correctly
- Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them
- Explain in writing why responses were or were not acceptable
- Focus red-team scenarios on nuclear safeguards, nonproliferation, fuel cycles, nuclear security, forensics, and related misuse potential
Requirements:
- Fuel-cycle depth plus exposure to how material is controlled, accounted for, or diverted
- Safeguards and nonproliferation experience strongly preferred
- Relevant backgrounds include safeguards analysis/IAEA or Euratom inspection, nuclear engineering, nuclear security engineering, nuclear forensics, or nonproliferation analysis
- Technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal
- Must be able to write clear rationales understandable to non-specialists
- Must be able to read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods
- Work must not involve or draw on classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or prepublication review obligations; applicants with such obligations must disclose them so work can be scoped accordingly
Benefits:
- Earn up to $250 for each successful referral
- Flexible participation: you can pause or step away at any point without penalty
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
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