Nuclear Engineer, Fuel Cycle

SaidGig; New York (NY); Remote; Part time

Job summary

SaidGig is offering a remote, task-based engagement to help assess how advanced AI systems handle high-stakes nuclear fuel cycle questions. You will develop challenging scenarios, judge model responses against a policy standard, and craft explanations accessible to non-specialists.

The role emphasizes practical fuel cycle expertise, technical writing, and the ability to distinguish routine engineering questions from potential misuse, all conducted remotely with flexible pacing.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in fuel cycle areas such as enrichment, conversion, fuel fabrication, reprocessing, separations, waste streams, spent fuel management, criticality safety, fuel cycle systems analysis, modeling or licensing.
• Ability to assess which technical parameters are appropriate for routine engineering discussion and which may present misuse concerns.
• Strong technical writing ability; published research, prior technical writing, expert witness experience or red-teaming experience are valuable.

Responsibilities

• Create single-turn nuclear-domain prompts categorized as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluate AI responses against a defined policy standard and determine whether each response was handled correctly.
• Develop reference answers that show the appropriate response and explain the technical reasoning behind the judgment.
• Use practitioner judgment to distinguish routine professional questions, such as criticality safety or material-balance work, from requests that may indicate harmful intent.
• Provide clear written rationales that non-specialists can understand.

Skills

Nuclear domain experience

Policy/compliance judgement

Technical writing

Research/publication/red-teaming

Job description

Role Overview

Help assess how advanced AI systems handle high-stakes nuclear fuel cycle questions, distinguishing legitimate technical requests from requests with misuse potential. This writing-intensive, remote engagement draws on practical fuel cycle and safeguards expertise to develop challenging scenarios and determine whether model responses follow an established safety policy.

Key Responsibilities

• Create single-turn nuclear-domain prompts categorized as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluate AI responses against a defined policy standard and determine whether each response was handled correctly.
• Develop reference answers that show the appropriate response and explain the technical reasoning behind the judgment.
• Use practitioner judgment to distinguish routine professional questions, such as criticality safety or material-balance work, from requests that may indicate harmful intent.
• Provide clear written rationales that non-specialists can understand.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in one or more fuel cycle areas, including enrichment, conversion, fuel fabrication, reprocessing, separations, waste streams, spent fuel management, criticality safety, fuel cycle systems analysis, modeling, safety analysis, or licensing for a fuel-cycle facility.
• Ability to assess which technical parameters are appropriate for routine engineering discussion and which may present misuse concerns.
• Strong technical writing ability.
• Published research, prior technical writing, expert witness experience, and red-teaming experience are valuable.

Work Terms

Remote, per-task engagement. The work includes sustained reading and writing about misuse scenarios. Advance briefing is provided, and you may pause or step away at any time without penalty.

Compensation

Compensation is 65 to 75 per task.

Eligibility

Work must not involve or rely on classified information, export-controlled information, material covered by an NDA, or material subject to prepublication review. Candidates with such obligations may still be eligible. Disclose them in your application so the work can be scoped appropriately.