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 requests correctly • Write reference answers explaining what a correct response looks like and the technical reasoning behind it • Develop prompts that distinguish legitimate professional questions from requests seeking harmful information • Provide written rationales that non-specialists can follow • Read and write about misuse scenarios in the field • Work only with unclassified, non-export-controlled information that is not covered by an NDA or prepublication review obligation

🎯 Requirements

• Experience characterising real nuclear material, including detection, attribution, and analytical work supporting defensible conclusions • Relevant background in nuclear forensics casework or international exercise participation • Experience with radiochemical and mass-spectrometric analysis, isotopics, age dating, impurity and process signatures • Experience with detection and interdiction technology, including portal monitors, handheld identification, or search operations • Experience with material signature libraries, reference materials, and attribution methodology • Pre- or post-detonation forensics research at a national laboratory or agency • Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially malicious requests • Strong technical writing ability; every judgment must include a rationale understandable to a non-specialist • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or material subject to prepublication review obligations • Willingness to read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods • Red-teaming experience is ideally relevant • Include a technical-writing sample or link if available

🏖️ 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