Analytical Chemist
Neon
$65 – $75 · as listed
As an Analytical Chemist, you'll contribute to AI safety evaluation by authoring chemistry-focused test prompts for frontier language models. Your role involves crafting single-turn scenarios that assess whether AI systems can distinguish between legitimate technical questions and requests with clear misuse potential—approving safe inquiries while appropriately declining harmful ones. This AI training work requires your advanced chemistry expertise to create realistic, nuanced prompts across multiple difficulty levels that genuinely challenge the model's judgment.
This is remote, task-based gig work ideal for experienced chemists who excel at technical writing and want flexible engagement with cutting-edge AI safety research. You'll work independently, leveraging your domain knowledge to help red-team AI systems before deployment. Compensation ranges from $65–$75 per task as listed.
From the listing: Mercor marketplace · task-based. ## About the work Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models. The goal is to test whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones. You will: - Write challenging single-turn prompts in your domain, labelled across three levels: b
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