Forensic Scientist – Nuclear Materials

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 5%

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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 as 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 explain the technical reasoning behind them • Create prompts that distinguish legitimate technical questions from dangerous ones • Provide written rationales for every judgment that non-specialists can understand • Read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods • Pause or step away from misuse-related work at any point without penalty

🎯 Requirements

• Experience characterising real nuclear material, including detection, attribution, and analytical work supporting defensible conclusions • Relevant background in nuclear forensics casework or international exercises • Experience with 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 • Pre- or post-detonation forensics research experience at a national laboratory or agency • Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially malicious requests • Strong technical writing skills; every judgment must include a rationale understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is strongly preferred • Red-teaming experience is ideally preferred • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations • Must disclose any such obligations so work can be scoped accordingly

🏖️ Benefits

• Earn up to $250 for each successful referral • Reasonable accommodations upon request