Radiological Safety Red-Team Specialist

Mercor; United States; Remote; 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 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 across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, evaluate responses against a defined policy standard, and craft the reference answer with technical reasoning for why.

Qualifications

• Experience translating complex radiological concepts into prompts and analyses.
• Ability to assess misuse potential of technical requests.
• Strong technical writing and reasoning documentation.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts labeled benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate responses against a defined policy standard.
• Write the reference answer with technical reasoning for why.

Skills

Radiological emergency planning

Field response and monitoring

Consequence and dispersal modelling

Incident command coordination

Public-health radiological response

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of radiological safety 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 across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, evaluate responses against a defined policy standard, and craft the reference answer with technical reasoning for why.