Forensic Scientist – Nuclear Materials

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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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 nuclear materials and safeguards, labelled benign, dual-use or adversarial • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard • Judge whether responses handled technical misuse potential correctly • Write reference answers and technical reasoning explaining correct responses • Distinguish routine professional questions from requests that may facilitate misuse • Provide written rationales understandable to non-specialists • Read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods

🎯 Requirements

• Experience characterising real nuclear material • Background in nuclear forensics casework or international exercise participation • Experience with sample characterisation and attribution • Experience in radiochemical and mass-spectrometric analysis, including isotopics, age dating, impurity and process signatures • Experience with detection and interdiction technology, including portal monitors, handheld identification and search operations • Experience with material signature libraries, reference materials and attribution methodology • Experience in pre- or post-detonation forensics research at a national laboratory or agency • Red-teaming experience ideally • Strong technical writing ability • Prior technical writing, published research or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Include a writing sample or link • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-protected information or material subject to prepublication review obligations • Must disclose such obligations so the work can be scoped accordingly

🏖️ Benefits

• Earn up to $250 for each successful referral • No limit on how many people you can refer • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty