Forensic Chemist & AI Red Team Specialist

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role focuses on writing challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial categories, and evaluating model responses against a defined policy standard.

Ideal candidates have casework experience identifying substances and precursors, and can defend conclusions in reports or in testimony. This is writing-intensive work; prior technical writing or expert witness experience is

Qualifications

• Background includes identifying substances and precursors and defending the conclusion in a report or on the stand.
• Writing prompts that sit on the line between benign and dual-use, and judging model outputs against policy standards.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging single-turn prompts labeled across benign, dual-use, and adversarial.
• Evaluate model responses against policy standards and judge correctness.
• Write the reference answer with the correct response and technical reasoning.

Skills

Casework experience

Technical writing

Expert testimony

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The role focuses on writing challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial categories, and evaluating model responses against a defined policy standard.

Ideal candidates have casework experience identifying substances and precursors, and can defend conclusions in reports or in testimony. This is writing-intensive work; prior technical writing or expert witness experience is