Radiation Safety Expert - AI Red-Team Prompt Designer

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

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of radiological safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The work involves writing prompts at three levels (benign, dual-use, and adversarial), evaluating model responses, and drafting the reference answer with technical reasoning.

You will assess misuse potential and ensure guidelines are clearly justified for non-specialists. This role requires hands-on measurement, dose planning, and experience with survey, assay, and contamination control; strong writing is

Qualifications

• Experience as health physicist in a facility where dose planning and surveys matter.
• Ability to tell routine professional questions from sensitive misuse questions.
• Experience writing technical rationale for non-specialists.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels.
• Evaluate model responses against policy standards.
• Write the reference answer and technical reasoning.

Skills

Health physics

Dosimetry

Decommissioning health physics

Accelerator physics

Dose planning

Tools

MARSSIM

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of radiological safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The work involves writing prompts at three levels (benign, dual-use, and adversarial), evaluating model responses, and drafting the reference answer with technical reasoning.

You will assess misuse potential and ensure guidelines are clearly justified for non-specialists. This role requires hands-on measurement, dose planning, and experience with survey, assay, and contamination control; strong writing is