Fuel-Cycle Nuclear Engineer for AI Safety Red Teaming

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role focuses on writing challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, and evaluating model responses against a defined policy standard.

You will also draft the reference answer with the technical reasoning, and ensure every judgment is accompanied by a clear rationale for non-specialists.

Qualifications

• Background in fuel cycle (enrichment, reprocessing, fabrication) and safeguards.
• Strong technical writing ability with sample or published work.
• Experience in red-teaming or misuse analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels.
• Evaluate model responses against policy standards.
• Write reference answers and underlying rationale.

Skills

Technical writing

Red-teaming

Nuclear fuel cycle knowledge

Criticality safety

Risk assessment

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role focuses on writing challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, and evaluating model responses against a defined policy standard.

You will also draft the reference answer with the technical reasoning, and ensure every judgment is accompanied by a clear rationale for non-specialists.