Nuclear Safeguards Red-Teaming Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks specialists to join a panel testing frontier AI models for misuse potential in nuclear-safeguards contexts. You will craft prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels and assess model outputs against policy standards.

Applicants should bring experience in export controls, treaty implementation, or proliferation analysis, and be prepared to document judgments with clear rationales.

Qualifications

• Experience in export control licensing, classification or enforcement.
• Treaty and agreement implementation experience (NPT, CTBT, safeguards agreements).
• Proliferation pathway and programme analysis background.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in benign, dual-use and adversarial categories.
• Evaluate model responses against a policy standard and judge handling quality.
• Draft reference answers with technical reasoning explaining correct handling.

Skills

Export control licensing

Treaty implementation

Proliferation analysis

Policy writing

Open-source analysis

Education

Background in proliferation policy

Job description

Mercor seeks specialists to join a panel testing frontier AI models for misuse potential in nuclear-safeguards contexts. You will craft prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels and assess model outputs against policy standards.

Applicants should bring experience in export controls, treaty implementation, or proliferation analysis, and be prepared to document judgments with clear rationales.