Synthetic / Process Chemist

🔥 10 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 4%

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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 chemistry prompts labeled benign, dual-use, or adversarial • Evaluate AI model responses against a defined policy standard • Judge whether model responses handled technical requests correctly • Write reference answers explaining what a correct response looks like and the technical reasoning behind it • Red-team frontier AI models for chemistry misuse potential • Apply practical route, scale-up, process chemistry, and chemical safety expertise to distinguish legitimate requests from dangerous ones • Provide written rationales that non-specialists can follow • Read and write about chemistry misuse scenarios while taking breaks or stepping away when needed

🎯 Requirements

• Synthetic / process chemistry expertise • Experience running routes and scaling them from bench to pilot to plant • Ability to distinguish routine professional chemistry questions from potentially dangerous or misuse-related requests • Experience in synthetic route design and development in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, or fine chemicals • Experience in process chemistry and reaction engineering, including optimisation, kinetics, and impurity control • Experience with scale-up from bench to pilot to plant, including associated safety reviews • Experience with precursor sourcing, controlled-substance registration, or regulatory chemistry • Experience with method development and troubleshooting in a GMP or equivalent quality environment • Strong technical writing ability; every judgment must include a rationale understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Ability to read and write about misuse scenarios for sustained periods • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-protected information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations • LinkedIn URL required unless the applicant selects 'I don't have a LinkedIn' • Full legal name and email required for application

🏖️ Benefits

• Earn up to $250 for each successful referral • No limit on the number of referrals • Reasonable accommodations available upon request • Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty