Remote AI Trainer: Computational Chemist

DataAnnotation; Bethesda (MD); Remote; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Full time

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Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking an experienced Computational Chemist - AI Trainer to design chemistry problems that today’s leading AI models still get wrong. You will bring subject knowledge to catch errors and use tooling to prove them.

This role blends deep chemistry with coding to create ground truth that models must meet, making accuracy the entire job. You will design, test, and validate complex tasks, write reproducible step-by-step solutions, and work across computational and physical

Qualifications

• Fluency in English (native or bilingual).
• Active research background in chemistry or chemical engineering.
• Strong coding skills in Python and terminal proficiency.
• Familiarity with reproducible or containerized environments such as Docker is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design complex chemistry tasks in your area of expertise.
• Define what a correct answer looks like and the standard a model has to meet.
• Test and validate the task yourself before you submit it.
• Write a step-by-step solution another researcher could reproduce.
• Design tasks a model cannot solve by replaying a known answer, and flag where its chemical reasoning breaks.
• Work across computational and physical chemistry, cheminformatics, molecular modeling, and analytical workflows.

Skills

English fluency

Python

Docker familiarity

Job description

DataAnnotation is seeking an experienced Computational Chemist - AI Trainer to design chemistry problems that today’s leading AI models still get wrong. You will bring subject knowledge to catch errors and use tooling to prove them.

This role blends deep chemistry with coding to create ground truth that models must meet, making accuracy the entire job. You will design, test, and validate complex tasks, write reproducible step-by-step solutions, and work across computational and physical