Source Security Specialist
Neon
$65 – $75 · as listed
Source Security Specialist at Neon is a remote, advanced-level position focused on AI safety evaluation through specialized writing work. You'll develop carefully crafted prompts designed to test how AI models handle sensitive requests in STEM domains—specifically radiological safety. Your role involves creating nuanced scenarios across difficulty levels that help AI systems distinguish between legitimate technical questions and potentially harmful requests, contributing to safer model deployment.
This task-based work suits experienced professionals with deep domain expertise who can think critically about misuse vectors and edge cases. You'll write original prompts that challenge AI systems in realistic ways, helping researchers understand where models might fail to refuse dangerous requests or over-refuse benign ones. Strong technical writing skills and familiarity with safety considerations in your field are essential.
The position offers $65–$75 per hour and operates fully remote through the Mercor platform, allowing you to contribute to AI safety work on a flexible, project-based arrangement.
From the listing: Mercor marketplace · task-based. ## About the work Mercor is assembling a panel of radiological safety 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, dua
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