Synthetic / Process Chemist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 6%

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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 chemistry and chemical safety, labeled as benign, dual-use, or adversarial • Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard • Judge whether model responses handled technical requests correctly • Write reference answers describing correct responses and the technical reasoning behind them • Test frontier AI models' ability to assess the misuse potential of technical requests • Apply practitioner expertise to distinguish routine process chemistry from potentially dangerous requests • Provide written rationales for judgments that non-specialists can follow • Read and write about misuse scenarios in chemistry for sustained periods

🎯 Requirements

• Synthetic route design and development experience in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, or fine chemicals • Process chemistry and reaction engineering experience, including optimisation, kinetics, and impurity control • Experience scaling from bench to pilot to plant, including the associated safety review • Experience with precursor sourcing, controlled-substance registration, or regulatory chemistry • Method development and troubleshooting in a GMP or equivalent quality environment • Ability to distinguish routine professional chemistry questions from requests involving misuse • Strong writing skills and ability to provide rationales understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal; include a sample or link • Must not use classified or export-controlled information, NDA-covered information, or information subject to prepublication review obligations

🏖️ Benefits

• Earn up to $250 for each successful referral through the referral link • Reasonable accommodations available upon request • Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work at any point without penalty