Forensic Scientist – Nuclear Materials

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 11%

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 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 correctly answer legitimate questions and refuse dangerous ones • Write reference answers explaining what a correct response looks like and the technical reasoning behind it • Apply practical expertise to distinguish routine professional questions from requests indicating potential misuse • Provide written rationales that non-specialists can follow • Read and write about misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods • Coordinate scope appropriately when classified, export-controlled, NDA, or prepublication obligations exist

🎯 Requirements

• Background characterising real nuclear material, including detection, attribution, and analytical work supporting defensible conclusions • Relevant experience 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 • Experience in pre- or post-detonation forensics research at a national laboratory or agency • Writing-intensive experience; every judgment requires a written rationale understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Must not use classified, export-controlled, NDA-protected, or prepublication-review information in the work • Include a technical writing sample or link if available

🏖️ Benefits

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