Analytical Chemist for AI Safety Red-Teaming

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. You will write prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels and judge model outputs against a defined policy standard.

This writing-intensive role requires clear explanations; prior published writing or expert testimony is a strong signal. You will also be reading and writing about misuse scenarios in your field for sustained periods, with the ability to pause or step away at any

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts in your domain, labelled across three levels: benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate the responses that come back against a defined policy standard, and judge whether each was handled correctly.
• Write the reference answer — what a correct response looks like, and the technical reasoning for why.

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. You will write prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels and judge model outputs against a defined policy standard.

This writing-intensive role requires clear explanations; prior published writing or expert testimony is a strong signal. You will also be reading and writing about misuse scenarios in your field for sustained periods, with the ability to pause or step away at any