Nuclear Safeguards Red Team Specialist

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards experts to red‑team frontier AI models to test misuse potential while ensuring safe, robust responses. You will write prompts across benign, dual‑use, and adversarial levels and judge model outputs against a defined policy standard, then draft reference answers with clear technical reasoning.

This writing‑intensive role focuses on distinguishing routine professional questions from probing or sensitive inquiries.

Qualifications

• Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from misleading inquiries
• Experience in export control, treaty implementation, or programme analysis preferred
• Strong written communication and reasoning abilities

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial categories.
• Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard and document judgments.
• Draft reference answers with clear technical reasoning to illustrate correct handling.

Skills

Regulatory analysis

Technical writing

Policy evaluation

Red-teaming

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards experts to red‑team frontier AI models to test misuse potential while ensuring safe, robust responses. You will write prompts across benign, dual‑use, and adversarial levels and judge model outputs against a defined policy standard, then draft reference answers with clear technical reasoning.

This writing‑intensive role focuses on distinguishing routine professional questions from probing or sensitive inquiries.