
Nuclear & Radiological Safety Expert for AI Model Audit
Listing checked October 29, 2026 · pay as published by Braintrust
Key details
- Pay
- $50–70/hr
- Location
- Remote · United States; Canada; Australia +3 moreAustralia, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States
- Job type
- contract
- Openings
- 25
- Posted
- September 23, 2026
Overview
SME Careers, a SuperAnnotate subsidiary, is putting together a small panel of nuclear and radiological specialists to test how leading AI models handle sensitive questions in the field. Each task gives you one user request plus the replies three different models produced. You sort the request as benign, dual-use or adversarial, judge every reply as safe or unsafe with your reasoning attached, rank the three against each other, and draft the answer the model should have given. The work touches reactor physics, radiation safety, and safeguards material that real engineers, health physicists, regulators and students bring to these tools. Spotting an ordinary professional question that a model wrongly refuses counts as much as catching a dangerous reply.
What You'll Do7
- Sort each user request into one of three buckets: benign, dual-use or adversarial.
- Judge every model reply as safe or unsafe and write down the reasoning behind the call.
- Rank the three responses against each other and defend the order.
- Draft the answer the model should have produced.
- For dual-use requests, spell out the sensitive element, the legitimate purpose it serves, and who should be able to get an answer.
- Call out routine professional questions that models refuse when they should not.
- Keep your safety judgments consistent across a stream of short-term tasks.
Requirements5
- Professional standing as a nuclear engineer, reactor physicist, health physicist, radiation safety officer, radiochemist, safeguards specialist or comparable role.
- A relevant degree plus five or more years of professional experience.
- Command of how sensitive nuclear and radiological questions surface in real work, from licensing and inspection to lab research.
- Ability to write clear, defensible reasoning in English.
- Citizenship or residency in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the European Union.
Preferred Qualifications2
- Experience reviewing technical work against a standard, such as licensing, inspection or peer review
- AI red teaming background
Who Should Apply
The role fits nuclear engineers, reactor physicists, health physicists, radiochemists, safeguards and nonproliferation specialists, and former military or government nuclear staff who can tell whether an AI answer is safe. Five or more years of practice plus a relevant degree is the usual baseline.
Salary Insight
This freelance engagement pays $50 to $70 per hour. That band matches short-term expert review work that asks for a nuclear or radiological credential plus five years in the field, and the project is scoped as a short-term commitment.
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