Remote Computational Chemist & AI Reasoning Trainer

Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association, Inc.; Pasadena (CA); A distancia; USD 55.000 - 172.000; A tiempo parcial

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible schedule

Remote work

Independent contractor

Descripción de la vacante

Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association, Inc. seeks an experienced Computational Chemist - AI Trainer to design chemistry problems to challenge AI models. You will design, test, and validate tasks, ensuring the ground truth is consistent for scoring model outputs.

This is a contractor role with flexible scheduling and remote work from home. The position requires deep chemistry knowledge, strong Python coding skills, and the ability to prove mechanism and synthesis reasoning.

Formación

• Fluency in English (native or bilingual level).
• An active research background in chemistry or chemical engineering: advanced graduate student, postdoc, academic researcher, or industry practitioner.
• Strong coding skills. You write Python and work comfortably at a terminal as part of your research, not as a side interest.
• Familiarity with reproducible or containerized environments such as Docker is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Python coding

English fluency

Educación

Active research background in chemistry or chemical engineering

Herramientas

Docker

Descripción del empleo

Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association, Inc. seeks an experienced Computational Chemist - AI Trainer to design chemistry problems to challenge AI models. You will design, test, and validate tasks, ensuring the ground truth is consistent for scoring model outputs.

This is a contractor role with flexible scheduling and remote work from home. The position requires deep chemistry knowledge, strong Python coding skills, and the ability to prove mechanism and synthesis reasoning.