Safeguards Analyst / IAEA or Euratom Inspector

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

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards experts to red-team frontier AI models, testing whether a model can judge misuse potential while answering legitimate questions fully and refusing dangerous ones. You will write prompts, evaluate responses, and craft reference answers with technical reasoning.

This is writing-intensive work requiring clear rationales that non-specialists can follow.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in nuclear safeguards or IAEA/Euratom inspection contexts.
• Ability to write clear, well-reasoned analyses and prompts.
• Familiarity with policy evaluation and red-teaming concepts.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels.
• Evaluate model responses against policy standards and judge correctness.
• Draft reference answers and technical rationales for each prompt.

Job description

Safeguards Analyst / IAEA or Euratom Inspector

• Company: Mercor
• Compensation: $65-$75 per task
• Commitment: Contract
• Location: Remote
• Referral Reward: Earn up to $250 per successful referral
• Referral Link: https://work.mercor.com/explore?listingId=list_AAABoKHaeKs87ms6Eq9CAbNs

About the work Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards 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.

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.

Background we're looking for

We're looking for people who have verified nuclear material rather than read about it — inspection regimes, accountancy, and the judgment calls that come with an unresolved discrepancy.

What matters most is being able to tell a routine professional question from one that's fishing for something else: the same material-balance figure that closes an account can be used to conceal a diversion. You will be writing prompts that sit exactly on that line, then judging whether the model held it.

Examples of relevant backgrounds (ideally with red-teaming experience):

• IAEA, Euratom or state-system (SSAC/RSAC) inspector — inspection planning, verification, reporting
• Material accountancy — facility declarations, inventory change reports, MUF evaluation and resolution
• Additional Protocol implementation — declarations, complementary access, information analysis
• Safeguards instrumentation and containment/surveillance — NDA measurement, seals, unattended monitoring
• Safeguards-by-design work or safeguards policy analysis at a laboratory, regulator or ministry

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.

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