SME CareersDomain experts
Nuclear & Radiological Safety Expert for AI Model Audit
up to $74/hr
About this role, in SME Careers' words
SME Careers is assembling a small panel of nuclear and radiological professionals to audit how AI models respond to sensitive questions in the field. Each task gives you a user request and the answers three different models gave to it. You classify the request (benign, dual-use or adversarial), mark each answer as safe or unsafe and say why, rank the three against each other, and write the answer the model should have given. For dual-use requests you also note what makes it sensitive, what legitimate purpose it serves, and who should be able to get an answer.
Candidate background
What this role asks for
- Nuclear Physics
- English
- physics reasoning
- AI Training
- Scientific Review
- Nuclear Structure
- Fusion
- Fission
Read from the posting's own words: show the exact sentences
- Nuclear Physics: “listed by the platform under required skills: Nuclear Physics”
- English: “listed by the platform under required skills: English”
- physics reasoning: “listed by the platform under required skills: physics reasoning”
- AI Training: “listed by the platform under required skills: AI Training”
- Scientific Review: “listed by the platform under required skills: Scientific Review”
- Nuclear Structure: “listed by the platform under required skills: Nuclear Structure”
- Fusion: “listed by the platform under required skills: Fusion”
- Fission: “listed by the platform under required skills: Fission”
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in SME Careers' words
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## Description
SME Careers is assembling a small panel of nuclear and radiological professionals to audit how AI models respond to sensitive questions in the field. Each task gives you a user request and the answers three different models gave to it. You classify the request (benign, dual-use or adversarial), mark each answer as safe or unsafe and say why, rank the three against each other, and write the answer the model should have given. For dual-use requests you also note what makes it sensitive, what legitimate purpose it serves, and who should be able to get an answer.
The requests are realistic: the kinds of things reactor engineers, health physicists, regulators, students and occasionally bad actors actually ask. Some are ordinary professional questions that models wrongly refuse, and catching those matters as much as catching the dangerous ones.
This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your nuclear physics expertise directly helps improve the world’s leading AI models by making their nuclear science, radiation, and physics outputs more accurate, safe and reliable.
## Who we're looking for
Nuclear engineers and reactor physicists, safeguards and nonproliferation specialists (IAEA, NRC or equivalent, export control, national labs), health physicists and radiation safety officers, radiochemists, and former military or government nuclear personnel. Usually a relevant degree plus five or more years of professional experience. Experience reviewing technical work against a standard (licensing, inspection, peer review) or AI red teaming is a strong plus.
## Before you apply
This role is open only to citizens or residents of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the European Union.
Location: Remote
How does the pay compare?Across Domain experts roles, not this role alone
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Pay across the field: Domain experts
Across 692 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $74, is in the middle half. Of the 258 distinct rates we count, 86 are lower and 172 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 149 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| micro1 | 130 | $28 to $400 · median $110 |
| AfterQuery | 88 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Handshake AI | 79 | $30 to $300 · median $85 |
| Mercor | 78 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 6 Oct 2026, and still on SME Careers's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by SME Careers
- Not stated
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 3eaed3cc-08f6-4c6a-9f0c-1af5d8615f89
Pay as the source states it: “Up to $74/hr”.
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