Nuclear Engineering and Safeguards Expert for AI Red Teaming

SaidGig; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

SaidGig is seeking an expert with deep nuclear safeguards knowledge to create boundary-testing prompts for frontier AI models. You will assess model outputs, draft reference answers, and write clear rationales for non-specialists.

This is a remote, per-task independent contractor role with flexible pacing and briefing provided. Ideal candidates have strong writing experience and a track record in safeguards or nonproliferation analysis, and must include writing samples or links with the

Qualifications

• Deep fuel-cycle knowledge and familiarity with how nuclear material is controlled, accounted for, or diverted.
• Safeguards or nonproliferation experience is especially relevant.
• Strong technical writing experience, published research, or expert-witness experience is valued.

Responsibilities

• Develop challenging single-turn prompts in your specialty and label them as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Assess model responses against an established policy standard and determine whether each response was handled appropriately.
• Prepare reference answers that describe the correct response and the technical reasoning behind it.
• Write clear rationales that non-specialists can understand, including why a response is acceptable or unacceptable.

Skills

Nuclear fuel-cycle knowledge

Safeguards / nonproliferation

Technical writing

Writing sample linked

Job description

Role Overview

Help test frontier AI models’ ability to distinguish legitimate nuclear technical questions from requests with meaningful misuse potential. This writing-focused role uses your nuclear, safeguards, or nonproliferation expertise to create realistic boundary-testing scenarios and explain what a safe, technically sound response should do.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop challenging single-turn prompts in your specialty and label them as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Assess model responses against an established policy standard and determine whether each response was handled appropriately.
• Prepare reference answers that describe the correct response and the technical reasoning behind it.
• Write clear rationales that non-specialists can understand, including why a response is acceptable or unacceptable.

Qualifications

• Deep fuel-cycle knowledge and familiarity with how nuclear material is controlled, accounted for, or diverted.
• Safeguards or nonproliferation experience is especially relevant.
• Relevant backgrounds may include safeguards analysis or IAEA/Euratom inspection work involving material accountancy, inspection regimes, or the Additional Protocol; nuclear fuel-cycle engineering involving enrichment, reprocessing, or criticality; nuclear security engineering involving material protection, control and accounting, insider threats, or physical-protection design; nuclear forensics involving radioxenon monitoring, attribution, detection, or characterization; or nonproliferation analysis involving export controls, NSG trigger lists, acquisition, or smuggling pathways.
• Red-teaming experience is preferred.
• Strong technical writing experience, published research, or expert-witness experience is valued.
• Include a writing sample or link with your application.

Work Terms

Remote, per-task independent contractor engagement.

The work involves sustained reading and writing about nuclear misuse scenarios. You will receive advance briefing and may pause or step away at any time without penalty.

Compensation

Pay is 65 to 75 per task.

Eligibility

Do not use or draw on classified, export-controlled, NDA-protected, or prepublication-review information. If you have such obligations, disclose them in your application so the work can be scoped appropriately.