AI Safety & Proliferation Policy Analyst

Obsidian; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role involves writing prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels and evaluating model responses against a policy standard.

You will also craft reference answers with technical reasoning. This writing-intensive work requires clear, structured justification for each judgment and sustained analysis of misuse scenarios in your field.

Qualifications

• Worked proliferation questions professionally — export control, treaty implementation, or programme analysis.
• This is writing-intensive work. Every judgment you make needs a written rationale that a non-specialist can follow.
• You will also be reading and writing about misuse scenarios in your field for sustained periods.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in your domain, labelled across three levels: benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate the responses that come back against a defined policy standard, and judge whether each was handled correctly.
• Write the reference answer — what a correct response looks like, and the technical reasoning for why.

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role involves writing prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels and evaluating model responses against a policy standard.

You will also craft reference answers with technical reasoning. This writing-intensive work requires clear, structured justification for each judgment and sustained analysis of misuse scenarios in your field.