Senior Process Chemist & Route Design Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. You will craft challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels and assess model outputs against a policy standard.

Beyond technical depth, this role stresses written justification for each judgment and clear communication to non-specialists. Experience in route design, scale-up, and regulatory chemistry is valued.

Qualifications

• Experience in synthetic route design and development.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical/agrochemical or fine chemicals contexts.
• Ability to distinguish routine questions from dual-use inquiries.

Responsibilities

• Write challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels.
• Evaluate model responses against a policy standard and document judgments.
• Draft reference answers with technical reasoning accessible to non-specialists.

Skills

Chemical synthesis knowledge

Technical writing

Critical reasoning

Education

PhD in Chemistry

Job description

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. You will craft challenging prompts across benign, dual-use, and adversarial levels and assess model outputs against a policy standard.

Beyond technical depth, this role stresses written justification for each judgment and clear communication to non-specialists. Experience in route design, scale-up, and regulatory chemistry is valued.