Radiation Safety Officer

Mercor; India; Remote; INR 8,408,000 - 9,701,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Referral bonus

Contract work

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of radiological safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The work focuses on writing prompts, evaluating model outputs, and delivering reference answers with clear technical reasoning.

This is a contract, remote role requiring strong technical writing and regulatory insight into radiological safety and licensing frameworks.

Qualifications

• Named RSO on a broad-scope licence with programme management
• RSO or deputy RSO at a university, hospital or research institute running a mixed radionuclide programme
• Industrial or irradiator RSO with sealed sources and radiography exposure
• Licensing and regulatory submissions, amendments and inspections experience

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 handling accuracy
• Write the reference answer and the technical reasoning for why it is correct

Skills

RSO experience

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Radiation Safety Officer

Company: Mercor

Compensation: $65-$75 per task

Commitment: Contract

Location: Remote

Referral Reward: Earn up to $250 per successful referral

Referral Link: https://t.mercor.com/tcmpZ

About the work

Mercor is assembling a panel of radiological safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request - answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones.

What you will

• 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.

This domain lives on the dual-use line more than most. The same isotope underpins cancer therapy and industrial radiography; the same shielding calculation protects a worker and conceals a source. A model that refuses a routine dose question is failing as badly as one that answers a question it shouldn't. Drawing that line reliably is why we need practitioners rather than generalists.

Background we're looking for

• Named RSO on a broad-scope licence - programme management, source inventory, regulatory compliance
• RSO or deputy RSO at a university, hospital or research institute running a mixed radionuclide and sealed-source programme
• Industrial or irradiator RSO - Category 1 and 2 sealed sources, radiography, gauging, sterilisation
• Licensing and compliance specialist - NRC, Agreement State or national regulator submissions, amendments and inspections
• Radiation protection manager accountable for ALARA, audits, training and incident reporting across multiple authorised users

What this role demands beyond technical depth

This is writing-intensive work. Every judgment you make needs 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 also be reading and writing about misuse scenarios in your field for sustained periods. We brief experts on this in advance, and you can pause or step away at any point without penalty.

Before you apply

Your work here will not involve, and must not draw on, classified or export-controlled information, or anything covered by an NDA or pre-publication review obligation. If you hold such obligations you may still be a good fit; tell us in your application and we will scope the work accordingly.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.