Remote Synthetic Chemist for AI Safety Red-Teaming

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks chemists with real bench-to-plant scale-up experience to red-team frontier AI models. You will craft prompts across benign, dual-use and adversarial categories and assess model outputs against a policy standard.

You will also write reference answers with clear technical reasoning, ensuring the boundary between ordinary chemistry questions and potentially dangerous requests is drawn precisely. This is a writing-intensive, high-judgment role.

Qualifications

• Chemists with bench-to-pilot-to-plant scale‑up experience
• Ability to distinguish routine process chemistry from advanced misuse scenarios
• Strong written communication for technical reasoning and prompts writing

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in benign, dual-use and adversarial categories.
• Evaluate model responses against a defined policy standard and judge accuracy.
• Draft reference answers and technical reasoning outlining correct responses.

Job description

Mercor seeks chemists with real bench-to-plant scale-up experience to red-team frontier AI models. You will craft prompts across benign, dual-use and adversarial categories and assess model outputs against a policy standard.

You will also write reference answers with clear technical reasoning, ensuring the boundary between ordinary chemistry questions and potentially dangerous requests is drawn precisely. This is a writing-intensive, high-judgment role.