Nuclear Engineering, Safeguards Expert

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / day

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

👻 Ghost score 11%

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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 the nuclear domain • Label prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard • Judge whether responses handled technical requests correctly • Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them • Provide written rationales understandable to non-specialists • Read and write about nuclear 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 / IAEA or Euratom Inspector, Nuclear Engineer (Fuel Cycle), Nuclear Security Engineer, Nuclear Forensics Scientist, and Nonproliferation Analyst • Prior red-teaming experience ideally • Technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Include a technical writing sample or link • Ability to read and write about misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-protected information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations • Must disclose such obligations so 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 from the work at any point without penalty