Nuclear Engineer

Jobot; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 138,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to $100/hr onboarding paid

Remote work with flexible hours

Direct impact on nuclear safeguards

No interview process

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a nuclear safety review expert for a remote, contract-based role. You will review AI-generated content on nuclear and radiological topics, ensuring technical accuracy, safety framing, and policy alignment.

The position offers flexible hours, the ability to keep your current role, and direct impact on safeguards. The role emphasizes independent, hourly work across time zones, with onboarding paid and no traditional interview process.

Qualifications

• Must have strong ability to identify unsafe instructions and risk
• Ability to evaluate technical content for accuracy and policy alignment
• Proficient written English for detailed feedback and reports

Responsibilities

• Review AI-generated responses on nuclear/radiological topics for accuracy and safety
• Flag dangerous or misuse-enabling content and provide corrective guidance
• Create reference content answering benign nuclear questions responsibly
• Evaluate model outputs for safe handling and correct risk framing
• Detect incorrect physics, wrong units, or unsafe recommendations
• Provide written feedback explaining content safety and policy adherence
• Escalate high-risk content per guidelines
• Contribute to adjacent chemical, biological, radiological content where appropriate

Skills

Technical QA

Red team evaluation

Policy alignment

English proficiency (C1)

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Nuclear Engineering, Physics, Health Physics or related

Job description

AI Safety Review (Remote, Contract)

This Jobot Consulting Job is hosted by: Augie Ullmann
Salary: $75 - $100 per hour

A bit about us:

We are partnered with a fast growing AI data services company that builds the training and evaluation data behind many of the world's leading AI labs and foundation model developers. Their work sits where technical expertise meets model safety, bringing in specialists from nuclear engineering, radiation science, chemistry, biology and emergency response to evaluate how AI systems handle high consequence subject matter. The experts on these projects determine where these models should answer, where they should decline, and how they should reason about nuclear and radiological risk. They operate remotely across time zones and build their review teams around people who are already practicing in their field. We are helping them identify nuclear engineering specialists for this engagement.

Why join us:

• Competitive Hourly Compensation: Up to $100 per hour as an independent contractor
• Paid Onboarding: You are paid for the onboarding program, not only for project work
• No Interview Process: Candidates we put forward go directly into paid onboarding
• Keep Your Current Role: Structured as supplemental work. No requirement to leave your position
• 100% Remote, Flexible Hours: Set your own schedule and volume across time zones
• Direct Impact on Nuclear Safeguards: Your judgment determines where these models draw the line on nuclear and radiological questions
• Work Inside Your Expertise: Technical review and reference writing in your own discipline, not general purpose data work
• Growing Engagement: An expanding program with continued need across all four CBRN domains

Job Details

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Review AI generated responses covering nuclear and radiological topics, including fuel cycle, criticality, reactor systems, special nuclear material, safeguards, shielding and emergency response, for technical accuracy, safety framing and guideline alignment
• Flag outputs that provide dangerous procedural detail, material acquisition or diversion guidance, weaponization support, safeguards or detection evasion, or other misuse enabling content
• Create gold standard reference content that answers benign nuclear questions responsibly without introducing operationally sensitive detail
• Evaluate and rank model outputs on safe handling, correct risk framing, appropriate refusals, helpful redirection, scientific accuracy and clarity
• Detect hallucinated claims, incorrect physics, wrong units or activity figures, misleading risk statements, overconfident conclusions and unsafe recommendations
• Apply project rubrics consistently and provide clear written feedback explaining why content is safe, unsafe, incomplete or technically incorrect
• Ensure content uses precise nuclear terminology and communicates risk without exaggeration or minimization
• Escalate ambiguous, high risk or potentially harmful content for additional review per project guidelines
• Contribute across adjacent chemical, biological and radiological content where your background supports it

Qualifications Needed

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Nuclear Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Health Physics, Radiation Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in nuclear engineering, nuclear safety, criticality safety, reactor operations, fuel cycle, safeguards, decommissioning or technical review
• Experience or strong background in nuclear safety basis, criticality safety, radiological risk assessment, shielding, material control and accountability, or reactor systems
• Strong background in identifying unsafe instructions, operationally enabling detail, inappropriate specificity, misleading technical claims and unsupported conclusions
• Proven ability to evaluate technical content for accuracy, completeness and policy alignment, and to explain that judgment in precise written English
• Professional English proficiency at C1 minimum, sufficient to follow written guidelines and produce detailed written feedback
• Familiarity with 10 CFR 830, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, NQA-1, DOE nuclear safety orders, NRC licensing, or IAEA safeguards concepts preferred
• Professional Engineer licensure, reactor operator licensure, or an active or recent DOE or DoD clearance preferred
• Prior experience with AI safety, data annotation, technical QA, policy review, risk assessment, red team review, scientific review or rubric based evaluation strongly preferred
• Reliable and self directed, able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly remote contractor workflow
• of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand

Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot's policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.