Nuclear Engineering, Safeguards Expert

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Nuclear domain experts red-teaming Mercor’s frontier AI models. Writing prompts and evaluating responses for safeguards, nonproliferation, and misuse risks.

Responsibilities:

  • Write challenging single-turn prompts in the nuclear domain
  • Label prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial
  • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard
  • Judge whether responses handled technical requests correctly
  • Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them
  • Provide written rationales understandable to non-specialists
  • Read and write about nuclear misuse scenarios for sustained periods

Requirements:

  • Fuel-cycle depth plus exposure to how nuclear material is controlled, accounted for, or diverted
  • Safeguards and nonproliferation experience strongly preferred
  • Relevant backgrounds include Safeguards Analyst / IAEA or Euratom Inspector, Nuclear Engineer (Fuel Cycle), Nuclear Security Engineer, Nuclear Forensics Scientist, and Nonproliferation Analyst
  • Prior red-teaming experience ideally
  • Technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal
  • Include a technical writing sample or link
  • Ability to read and write about misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods
  • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-protected information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations
  • Must disclose such obligations so work can be scoped accordingly

Benefits:

  • Earn up to $250 for each successful referral through the unique referral link
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Ability to pause or step away from the work at any point without penalty