Nonproliferation Analyst

Role Overview

Help evaluate how advanced AI systems handle sensitive nuclear nonproliferation questions. This remote, per-task role focuses on distinguishing legitimate technical and compliance requests from dual-use or adversarial requests that could enable misuse.

Key Responsibilities

• Create challenging single-turn prompts in nuclear materials, safeguards, and nonproliferation, labeling each as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Assess model responses against an established policy standard and determine whether each response was handled appropriately.
• Develop reference answers that show the appropriate response and explain the underlying technical reasoning.
• Write clear rationales that non-specialists can understand while preserving the nuance needed to distinguish compliance questions from circumvention attempts.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in proliferation-related work, including export controls, treaty implementation, or program analysis.
• Ability to differentiate routine professional questions from requests seeking to evade controls or enable misuse.
• Relevant experience may include export-control licensing, classification, or enforcement; dual-use lists, catch-all controls, and end-user screening; implementation of the NPT, CTBT, safeguards agreements, or bilateral cooperation agreements; proliferation pathway and program analysis at a laboratory, agency, ministry, or research institute; sanctions, procurement-network, or illicit-trade analysis; or open-source and technical analysis of nuclear programs.
• Strong technical writing ability. Prior technical writing, published research, expert witness experience, or red-teaming experience is valued.
• Ability to engage with misuse scenarios in the field for sustained periods. You may pause or step away without penalty.

Work Terms

• Remote, per-task engagement.
• The work involves evaluating the boundary between legitimate assistance and dangerous misuse, including cases involving export controls, procurement, and proliferation pathways.

Compensation

• 65 to 75 per task.

Eligibility

• Do not use or rely on classified information, export-controlled information, material covered by an NDA, or material subject to prepublication review.
• Candidates with these obligations may still be considered if they disclose them so the work can be scoped appropriately.

Application Process

• Provide a technical writing sample or link to relevant published work, research, or expert-witness material.
• Disclose any classified-information, export-control, NDA, or prepublication-review obligations that may affect assignment scope.