Process Chemist & Route Design Expert, AI Safety Red Team

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models and assess misuse potential of technical requests. You will write challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, evaluate model responses, and craft reference answers with clear technical rationales.

This is writing-intensive work requiring the ability to explain judgments to non-specialists.

Qualifications

• Hands-on bench-to-plant synthesis experience.
• Familiarity with process chemistry and impurity control.
• Ability to clearly explain judgments in writing for non-specialists.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels.
• Evaluate model responses against policy standards and judge appropriateness.
• Draft reference answers with technical rationale for each prompt.

Skills

Synthesis experience

Scale-up experience

Red-teaming

Education

Chemistry degree (BS/MS/PhD)

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models and assess misuse potential of technical requests. You will write challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels, evaluate model responses, and craft reference answers with clear technical rationales.

This is writing-intensive work requiring the ability to explain judgments to non-specialists.