Synthetic / Process Chemist for AI Red-Teaming

SaidGig; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

SaidGig is seeking a writing-intensive contractor to test AI chemistry help at the boundary of routine questions and dual-use risk. You will design challenging single-turn prompts, assess AI responses, and develop reference answers with clear, instructive rationales.

Remote, per-task engagement; compensation is 65–75 USD per task. You should bring practical experience in synthetic route design, scale-up, process safety, impurity analysis, and regulatory chemistry, plus strong technical writing

Qualifications

• Practical bench-to-plant experience in scale-up and process chemistry.
• Ability to distinguish benign vs dual-use requests in chemistry.
• Strong technical writing skills with scientific audience in mind.

Responsibilities

• Create challenging single-turn chemistry prompts classified as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluate AI responses against a defined policy standard and determine whether each response was handled correctly.
• Develop reference answers that show the appropriate response and explain the underlying technical reasoning.
• Write clear rationales that non-specialists can understand.

Skills

Synthetic route scale-up

Process chemistry & reaction eng

Regulatory chemistry familiarity

Technical writing

Job description

Apply hands-on synthetic and process chemistry expertise to help evaluate how advanced AI systems handle technical chemistry requests, distinguishing legitimate scientific support from requests with meaningful misuse potential.

Role Overview

This writing-intensive, per-task engagement focuses on testing AI responses at the boundary between routine professional chemistry and dual-use risk. You will use practical experience in route design, scale-up, process safety, impurity analysis, and regulatory chemistry to assess whether models provide appropriate, policy-aligned answers.

Key Responsibilities

• Create challenging single-turn chemistry prompts classified as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Evaluate AI responses against a defined policy standard and determine whether each response was handled correctly.
• Develop reference answers that show the appropriate response and explain the underlying technical reasoning.
• Write clear rationales that non-specialists can understand.

Qualifications

• Practical experience running and scaling synthetic routes from bench through pilot and plant environments.
• Relevant background in one or more of the following: synthetic route design and development in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, or fine chemical settings; process chemistry and reaction engineering, including optimization, kinetics, and impurity control; scale-up and associated safety review; precursor sourcing, controlled-substance registration, or regulatory chemistry; or method development and troubleshooting in GMP or an equivalent quality environment.
• Ability to distinguish ordinary process-chemistry questions from requests intended to elicit harmful or inappropriate assistance.
• Strong technical writing skills.
• Published research, prior technical writing, expert-witness experience, or red-teaming experience is valuable. Include a writing sample or link with your application.
• Comfort reading and writing about chemistry misuse scenarios for sustained periods. You may pause or step away at any time without penalty.

Work Terms

Remote, per-task engagement.

Compensation

65 to 75 per task.

Eligibility

Do not use or rely on classified information, export‑controlled information, NDA‑covered material, or information subject to prepublication review obligations. Candidates with such obligations may still be considered if they disclose them in the application so the work can be scoped appropriately.