
Radiological Safety AI Red Team Expert
Listing checked October 28, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Key details
- Pay
- $75 fixed
- Location
- Remote
- Job type
- task-based
- Openings
- 905
- Posted
- September 9, 2026
Overview
Neon needs practitioners who have held real responsibility for radioactive material to stress-test frontier AI models. You will write single-turn prompts in radiological safety that sit on the dual-use line, tag each one as benign, dual-use, or adversarial, then grade how the model responded against a fixed policy standard. The hard part is the line itself: the same shielding calculation that protects a worker can also conceal a source, and a model that refuses a routine dose question fails just as badly as one that answers something it should refuse. Alongside each judgment you write the reference answer and the technical reasoning behind it. This is task-based work, and the brief notes that reading and writing about misuse scenarios can run for long stretches, so the team walks you through that in advance and lets you pause whenever you need.
What You'll Do8
- Draft demanding single-turn prompts inside your own specialty and label each as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
- Score model replies against the project's policy standard and decide whether each one was handled correctly.
- Write the reference answer for every prompt, spelling out what a correct response looks like and why.
- Explain each judgment in writing so a reader without a radiological background can follow the reasoning.
- Separate routine professional questions from requests that probe for misuse potential.
- Flag prompts where the legitimate and dangerous uses of an isotope or source overlap.
- Keep every prompt and rationale inside unclassified, non-export-controlled material.
- Note where a refusal or an answer crossed the policy line and describe the gap.
Requirements8
- Direct custody, licensing, or security responsibility for radioactive material, not just proximity to it.
- Background as a Radiation Safety Officer, Health Physicist, source security or vulnerability assessor, radiological emergency response specialist, or nuclear medicine physicist / cyclotron RSO.
- Skill at telling a routine technical question apart from one that is fishing for harmful detail.
- Strong technical writing, shown through prior publications, reports, or expert witness work.
- Comfort reading and writing about misuse scenarios in your field over sustained sessions.
- Red-teaming experience preferred.
- Willingness to submit a writing sample or link with your application.
- No reliance on classified, export-controlled, NDA-bound, or prepublication-review material.
Who Should Apply
Radiation safety officers, health physicists, source security assessors, and radiologic emergency response specialists who have held the licence of record or owned source custody. Prior red-teaming or published technical writing helps. Bring a sample that shows you can explain a dual-use judgment to a non-specialist.
Salary Insight
Compensation is $75 as a one-time payment for the task. Pay arrives per completed task rather than as a salary, so the amount reflects a single scoped red-teaming assignment instead of ongoing work.
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