Forensic/Toxicological Chemist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

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📋 Description

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in the chemistry and chemical safety domain • Label prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard • Judge whether responses handled technical requests correctly • Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them • Create prompts that distinguish legitimate professional questions from requests seeking harmful information • Provide written rationales for judgments that non-specialists can understand • Read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods

🎯 Requirements

• Experience conducting casework identifying substances and precursors • Experience defending conclusions in a report or on the stand • Background in controlled substance casework in a forensic laboratory, including identification and quantitation • Background in clandestine laboratory response, precursor identification, and scene chemistry • Background in forensic toxicology, including postmortem or human performance casework • Background in seized-drug and precursor trend monitoring or intelligence analysis • Experience with expert testimony and report writing on chemical casework • Strong ability to distinguish routine professional questions from potentially harmful requests • Strong technical writing ability; every judgment must include a written rationale understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations • Must disclose any applicable confidentiality obligations so the work can be scoped appropriately

🏖️ Benefits

• Up to $250 for each successful referral (referral limits apply) • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario content at any point without penalty