Synthetic / Process Chemist

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65 - $75 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 11%

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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 for frontier AI models in chemistry and chemical safety • Label prompts 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 and explain the technical reasoning behind them • Red-team scenarios involving synthetic chemistry, process chemistry, reaction engineering, scale-up, precursor sourcing, controlled substances, and regulatory chemistry • Provide written rationales that non-specialists can follow

🎯 Requirements

• Background in synthetic route design and development 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 associated safety reviews • 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 potentially dangerous misuse requests • Strong technical writing ability; every judgment requires a written rationale understandable to non-specialists • Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is a strong signal • Must not use classified, export-controlled, NDA-protected, or prepublication-review information • LinkedIn URL required unless applicant does not have LinkedIn

🏖️ Benefits

• Up to $250 for each successful referral • Flexible remote work • Ability to pause or step away from misuse-scenario work without penalty • Reasonable accommodations upon request