Chemical Defense Researcher

SaidGig; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

SaidGig is seeking a remote specialist to help evaluate frontier AI models on chemical safety and misuse-risk questions. The role focuses on distinguishing legitimate professional requests from dual-use or dangerous requests, enabling safe and helpful AI assistance.

You will craft prompts, evaluate responses against policy standards, and write reference answers with clear rationale for non-specialists.

Qualifications

• Experience in defensive chemical-threat work in institutional settings.
• Ability to assess the intent behind requests involving chemical agents.
• Experience with toxicology of chemical warfare agents.
• Research in chemical-threat decontamination, protection or detection.
• Red-team or evaluation experience preferred.
• Writing samples or published work encouraged.
• Include a writing sample or link with application.

Responsibilities

• Create challenging, single-turn chemical defense prompts categorized as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluate model responses against an established policy standard and determine whether each response was handled correctly.
• Write reference answers that show the appropriate response and explain the underlying technical reasoning.
• Document each judgment with clear rationale that non-specialists can understand.

Skills

Chemical defense experience

Threat assessment

Technical writing

Policy analysis

Job description

Role Overview

Help evaluate how frontier AI models handle chemical safety and misuse-risk questions. This writing-intensive role focuses on distinguishing legitimate professional requests from dual-use or dangerous requests, so models can provide appropriate assistance while refusing harmful guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Create challenging, single-turn chemical defense prompts categorized as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluate model responses against an established policy standard and determine whether each response was handled correctly.
• Write reference answers that show the appropriate response and explain the underlying technical reasoning.
• Document each judgment with clear rationale that non-specialists can understand.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience includes defensive chemical‑threat work in an institutional setting, including countermeasures, protection, detection, or verification.
• Strong candidates can assess the intent behind requests that may involve the same agent properties used in treatment protocols and threat assessments.
• Chemical defense research with USAMRICD, the DoD, CDC, or an allied national institute.
• Toxicology of chemical warfare agents or medical countermeasure development.
• Research in chemical‑threat decontamination, protection, or detection.
• CWC‑related verification, destruction, or designated laboratory analysis.
• Consequence assessment or medical management of chemical exposure.
• Red‑team‑ing experience is preferred.
• Prior technical writing, published research, or expert‑witness experience is strongly valued.
• Include a writing sample or link with your application.

Work Terms

This is remote, per-task work. The role involves sustained reading and writing about misuse scenarios in chemical defense. You will be briefed in advance and may pause or step away at any time without penalty.

Compensation

Compensation is $65 to $75 per task.

Eligibility

Work must not involve or draw on classified information, export‑controlled information, material covered by an NDA, or information subject to pre‑publication review. Candidates with such obligations may still apply, provided they disclose them so the work can be scoped appropriately.