Remote Nuclear Engineer - AI Red Team & Safeguards

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

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear domain experts to red-team frontier AI models, testing the misuse potential of technical requests and how models respond to legitimate questions while refusing dangerous ones.

The role emphasizes writing-intensive tasks, defending judgments with clear rationales, and drawing on safeguards and nonproliferation experience to guide analysis and reporting.

Qualifications

• This is writing-intensive work; every judgment must have a written rationale that a non-specialist can follow.
• Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal; please include a sample or link.
• You will read and write about misuse scenarios in your field for extended periods.
• You can pause or step away at any point without penalty.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in three levels: benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate responses against a defined policy standard and judge whether they were handled correctly.
• Write the reference answer and the technical reasoning for why it is acceptable or not.

Skills

Nuclear domain knowledge

Technical writing

Red-teaming experience

Policy analysis

Education

Nuclear engineering or related degree

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear domain experts to red-team frontier AI models, testing the misuse potential of technical requests and how models respond to legitimate questions while refusing dangerous ones.

The role emphasizes writing-intensive tasks, defending judgments with clear rationales, and drawing on safeguards and nonproliferation experience to guide analysis and reporting.