Nuclear Security Engineer
Neon
$65 – $75 · as listed
This remote role involves writing technical prompts to evaluate how advanced AI models handle nuclear security scenarios. As part of a specialized expert panel, you'll create single-turn test cases that assess whether AI systems can distinguish between legitimate nuclear materials and safeguards questions and those with potential for misuse. Your writing will help identify gaps in model safety across varying difficulty levels. The position suits advanced professionals with STEM expertise and strong technical writing skills who understand nuclear security domains. This is task-based work on the Mercor platform, listed at $65–$75 per hour.
From the listing: Mercor marketplace · task-based. ## About the work Mercor is assembling a panel of nuclear materials and safeguards 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
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