Nuclear Safeguards Red-Teaming Specialist

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear domain experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones.

You will write prompts, evaluate responses, and craft reference answers with clear justification for non-specialists. Prior technical writing or expert witness experience is highly valued for this research role.

Qualifications

• Prior technical writing and/or expert witness experience is a strong signal.
• Experience reading and writing about misuse scenarios in nuclear/related domains.
• Ability to provide written rationale suitable for non-specialists.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate model responses against a policy standard.
• Write reference answers and the technical reasoning explaining why.

Skills

Nuclear domain knowledge

Technical writing

Policy analysis

Red-teaming experience

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear domain experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones.

You will write prompts, evaluate responses, and craft reference answers with clear justification for non-specialists. Prior technical writing or expert witness experience is highly valued for this research role.