Radiation Safety Officer

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Radiation Safety Officer creating and evaluating radiological safety prompts for Mercor’s frontier AI red-teaming work. Writing reference answers that distinguish legitimate technical use from dangerous misuse.

Responsibilities:

  • Write challenging single-turn prompts in radiological safety, labelled as benign, dual-use, or adversarial
  • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard
  • Judge whether responses handled technical requests correctly
  • Write reference answers and explain the technical reasoning behind them
  • Distinguish routine professional questions from requests with potential misuse intent
  • Provide written rationales that non-specialists can follow

Requirements:

  • Must have held the radiation safety licence and been the person of record for acquisition, inventory, transfer and disposal
  • Named RSO on a broad-scope licence, or relevant RSO/deputy RSO, industrial/irradiator RSO, licensing and compliance specialist, or radiation protection manager experience
  • Experience with programme management, source inventory, regulatory compliance, Category 1 and 2 sealed sources, radiography, gauging, sterilisation, regulator submissions, amendments and inspections, ALARA, audits, training, and incident reporting as applicable
  • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal
  • Include a technical writing sample or link
  • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or material subject to prepublication review obligations
  • Ability to write clear rationales understandable to non-specialists
  • Must be able to read and write about misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods

Benefits:

  • Earn up to $250 for each successful referral
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty