Mercor
Nuclear Engineering & Safeguards Experts for Red Team
- Pay
- $65–75/task
- Type
- Task-based
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- Sep 9, 2026
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About this role
About the work Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear domain experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones. You will: Write challenging single-turn prompts in your domain, labelled across three levels: benign, dual-use, and adversarial. Evaluate the responses that come back against a defined policy standard, and judge whether each was handled correctly. Write the reference answer; what a correct response looks like, and the technical reasoning for why. Background we're looking for We're looking for fuel-cycle depth plus some exposure to how material is controlled, accounted for, or diverted. Safeguards and nonproliferation experience is the strongest signal. The red-teaming task is to write prompts that pull a model…
