Nuclear Safeguards Red Team Specialist (Remote)

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is offering a contract role for Nuclear Engineering & Safeguards Experts focused on red-team activities. You will design challenging prompts in the nuclear domain, categorize them, and assess AI model outputs against a policy standard.

The role emphasizes independent work, asynchronous collaboration, and flexible hours to improve AI model evaluation. Ideal candidates have safeguards and nonproliferation experience, a background in fuel-cycle and material control, and prior technical

Qualifications

• Experience in safeguards and nonproliferation.
• Background in fuel-cycle and material control.
• Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience.
• Ability to write and evaluate misuse scenarios in the nuclear field.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in the nuclear domain, labeled as benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate AI model responses against a defined policy standard to judge correctness.
• Write reference answers with technical reasoning to illustrate correct responses.
• Develop prompts that test AI models' ability to discern misuse potential in technical requests.
• Provide detailed written rationales for judgments to ensure clarity for non-specialists.
• Work independently and asynchronously with flexible hours to improve AI model evaluation.

Skills

Safeguards

Nonproliferation

Technical writing

Job description

Mercor is offering a contract role for Nuclear Engineering & Safeguards Experts focused on red-team activities. You will design challenging prompts in the nuclear domain, categorize them, and assess AI model outputs against a policy standard.

The role emphasizes independent work, asynchronous collaboration, and flexible hours to improve AI model evaluation. Ideal candidates have safeguards and nonproliferation experience, a background in fuel-cycle and material control, and prior technical