Nuclear Engineering, Safeguards Expert – Red Team

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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📋 Description

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in the nuclear domain • Label prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard • Judge whether responses were handled correctly • Write reference answers and explain the technical reasoning behind acceptable responses • Produce written rationales for every judgment • Read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods

🎯 Requirements

• Fuel-cycle depth plus exposure to how nuclear material is controlled, accounted for, or diverted • Safeguards and nonproliferation experience strongly preferred • Relevant backgrounds include Safeguards Analyst, Nuclear Engineer (Fuel Cycle), Nuclear Security Engineer, Nuclear Forensics Scientist, and Nonproliferation Analyst • Experience with material accountancy, inspection regimes, Additional Protocol, enrichment, reprocessing, criticality, MPC&A, insider threat, physical protection design, radioxenon monitoring, attribution, detection and characterisation, export control, NSG trigger lists, acquisition, or smuggling pathways • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Must be able to write clear rationales understandable to non-specialists • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations • Must disclose any such obligations so the work can be scoped accordingly

🏖️ Benefits

• Earn up to $250 for each successful referral through the unique referral link • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Ability to pause or step away at any point without penalty • Work scoped appropriately if subject to classified, export-controlled, NDA, or prepublication review obligations

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