Remote Synthetic Chemist for AI Safety & Scale-Up

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 67.000 - 78.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mercor is seeking a Synthetic / Process Chemist on a contract basis, remote-friendly, to design synthetic routes for pharmaceutical, agrochemical, or fine chemical projects and to help scale processes from bench to plant.

You will write and evaluate chemical processes, collaborate with chemistry experts, and contribute to technical writing and regulatory considerations while meeting project deadlines.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in designing and developing synthetic routes for pharma, agrochemical, or fine chemicals.
• Expertise in process chemistry, reaction engineering, and scale-up from bench to plant.
• Background in precursor sourcing, regulatory chemistry, or controlled-substance registration.
• Prior technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience.

Aufgaben

• Write challenging prompts in chemistry and chemical safety; label benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluate AI model responses against policy standards and judge correctness.
• Write reference answers with technical reasoning to illustrate correct responses.
• Collaborate with chemistry experts to ensure models distinguish routine vs dangerous requests.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Kenntnisse

Synthetic route design

Process chemistry

Reaction engineering

Scale-up from bench to plant

Precursor sourcing

Regulatory chemistry

Technical writing

Jobbeschreibung

Mercor is seeking a Synthetic / Process Chemist on a contract basis, remote-friendly, to design synthetic routes for pharmaceutical, agrochemical, or fine chemical projects and to help scale processes from bench to plant.

You will write and evaluate chemical processes, collaborate with chemistry experts, and contribute to technical writing and regulatory considerations while meeting project deadlines.