Forensic Scientist: Nuclear Materials Red-Team Lead

Neon; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

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 at three levels (benign, dual-use, adversarial) and evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard, providing a reference answer with technical reasoning.

Job description

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 at three levels (benign, dual-use, adversarial) and evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard, providing a reference answer with technical reasoning.