Remote Chemical Defense Researcher (AI Safety)

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

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.