Radiological Emergency Response Specialist - Remote
Listing checked September 15, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Overview
This project brings together radiological safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The panel tests whether a model can judge the misuse potential of a technical request, answering legitimate questions while refusing dangerous ones. Your domain sits on the dual-use line: the same isotope supports cancer therapy and industrial radiography, and the same shielding math protects a worker or hides a source. A model that refuses a routine dose question fails just as much as one that answers a harmful query. Radiological safety practitioners, not generalists, draw that line.
What You'll Do6
- 1Craft single-turn prompts in your radiological specialty, tagging each as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
- 2Measure model replies against the project policy standard and decide if each reply meets that standard.
- 3Write a reference answer that shows what a correct response should contain, with the technical reasoning behind it.
- 4Explain each judgment in writing so a non-specialist reader can follow your logic.
- 5Identify prompts that sit on the line between routine professional inquiry and a request fishing for harmful detail.
- 6Read and write about radiological misuse scenarios for sustained periods, with the option to pause or step away at any point.
Requirements8
- 1Hands-on role in radiological emergency planning or response, not tabletop or classroom exposure.
- 2Ability to tell a routine professional question from one that seeks harmful detail.
- 3Background in at least one of these areas: radiological emergency planning at a licensed facility or state/national level, field response and monitoring (FRMAC, RAP, CBRN or national teams), consequence and dispersal modelling, incident command for a radiological event or full-scale exercise, or medical/public-health radiological response.
- 4Comfort writing technical rationale for readers outside the field.
- 5Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness work is a strong signal. Include a sample or link.
- 6Red-teaming experience is welcome but not required.
- 7No classified, export-controlled, NDA-covered, or prepublication review material. If you hold such obligations, disclose them so the scope can be adjusted.
- 8Willingness to read and write about radiological misuse scenarios for extended periods. The project briefs experts on this in advance, and you may pause or step away without penalty.
Who Should Apply
Practitioners who have owned radiological consequence, contamination, or protective-action work during a real event or full-scale exercise fit this panel best. You can separate a routine dose or shielding question from a request that seeks harmful operational detail, and you can put that judgment in writing for a non-specialist. The role suits experts from FRMAC, RAP, CBRN teams, state or national radiological response, medical radiological response, or consequence and dispersal modelling. Candidates who only studied radiological topics, lack a writing sample, or cannot explain why a prompt crosses the dual-use line often score low. Another common rejection reason: treating every technical question as dangerous, which mirrors a model that over-refuses and fails the task.
Salary Insight
Pay is a one-time $75 fee for the task, not an hourly rate or salary. This amount matches a short, task-based red-team assignment, so treat it as a fixed payment for one completed deliverable. Ask about scope, review rounds, and whether the panel offers follow-on tasks before you commit.
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Lead with a concrete radiological response or planning decision you owned, then add a link to a published paper, expert witness report, or technical writing sample. Name the exact models or methods you used, such as plume modelling, dose projection, or FRMAC monitoring, and state your red-teaming experience if you have it.
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