Nuclear Security Engineer
Posted 1 day ago
You'll complete your application on Mercor's career site.
About the Role
We are forming an expert panel consisting of professionals in safeguards and nuclear materials to conduct red-teaming exercises on advanced artificial intelligence models. Your core mission is to test how effectively these systems recognize and handle potentially harmful technical questions. You will assess the AI's ability to differentiate between valid, professional inquiries and those that could compromise security, ensuring that it provides helpful answers for safe topics while correctly denying requests that violate safety protocols. Given the dual-use nature of nuclear security information—where technical data can serve both peaceful operations and malicious exploitation—this role requires specialized expertise to establish and uphold strict safety benchmarks. You will play a vital role in balancing the model's utility with safety, minimizing risks such as unnecessary refusals or the unintended leakage of sensitive technical knowledge.
Requirements
- Demonstrate extensive professional background in nuclear material security, with expertise in physical protection systems, material control and accountability, and facility-wide assessments.
- Showcase experience from roles within licensed facilities or national labs, particularly involving insider threat programs, adversary path analysis, response force testing, barrier design, or sensor technologies.
- Possess strong technical writing capabilities, with the ability to explain intricate concepts in accessible language for non-experts.
- Display a history of success in technical research, formal publications, or serving as a subject matter expert in professional settings.
- Maintain total compliance with all regulations, ensuring that no restricted, export-controlled, or classified information is utilized during your work.
Responsibilities
- Develop complex single-turn prompts that span benign, dual-use, and adversarial categories to push the boundaries of AI capabilities.
- Assess how the models perform against predefined policy guidelines and render final determinations on the safety and appropriateness of their outputs.
- Draft comprehensive reference responses that illustrate the expected behavior and outline the technical justification for your evaluations.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of possible exploitation scenarios and document your findings with extreme rigor to prevent the models from disclosing information that could lead to security compromises.
Benefits & Perks
- You are granted the autonomy to cease or suspend your involvement in the project whenever necessary, without facing any negative repercussions.
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