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Mercor

Forensic Scientist – Nuclear Materials

Mercor

. Write challenging single-turn prompts in nuclear materials and safeguards, labelled benign, dual-use, or adversarial .

Posted 9/25/2026contractRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $65 - $75 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Write challenging single-turn prompts in nuclear materials and safeguards, labelled benign, dual-use, or adversarial
  • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard
  • Judge whether responses handled technical requests correctly
  • Write reference answers and explain the technical reasoning behind them
  • Red-team frontier AI models on misuse-potential judgments
  • Provide written rationales that non-specialists can follow
  • Read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience characterising real nuclear material
  • Background in nuclear forensics casework or international exercises, radiochemical and mass-spectrometric analysis, detection and interdiction technology, material signature libraries and attribution methodology, or pre-/post-detonation forensics research
  • Ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially dangerous requests
  • Strong technical writing skills
  • Ability to write rationales understandable to non-specialists
  • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal
  • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations
  • Applicants with such obligations must disclose them so the work can be scoped accordingly

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Earn up to $250 for each successful referral
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty