Nuclear Engineering, Safeguards Expert – Red Team

🕒 October 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / day

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

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📋 Description

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in the nuclear domain and label them as benign, dual-use, or adversarial • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard • Judge whether responses handled technical requests correctly • Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them • Provide written rationales that non-specialists can follow • Read and write about nuclear misuse scenarios for sustained periods • Follow work-scoping requirements where classified, export-controlled, NDA-covered, or prepublication-review obligations exist

🎯 Requirements

• Fuel-cycle depth plus exposure to how nuclear material is controlled, accounted for, or diverted • Safeguards and nonproliferation experience strongly preferred • Relevant background such as Safeguards Analyst/IAEA or Euratom Inspector, Nuclear Engineer (Fuel Cycle), Nuclear Security Engineer, Nuclear Forensics Scientist, or Nonproliferation Analyst • Prior red-teaming experience ideally • Technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Must include a writing sample or link • Ability to read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods • Work must not involve or draw on classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or material subject to prepublication review obligations; applicants with such obligations must disclose them so work can be scoped accordingly

🏖️ Benefits

• Earn up to $250 for each successful referral through a unique referral link • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Ability to pause or step away from the work at any point without penalty