Chemical Defense Researcher
Neon
$65 – $75 · as listed
# Chemical Defense Researcher
Neon is seeking advanced chemistry and chemical safety experts to participate in AI safety testing on a remote, task-based gig. Your role involves writing specialized prompts designed to evaluate how frontier AI models handle requests in your domain—distinguishing between legitimate technical inquiries and those with genuine misuse potential. This work sits at the intersection of chemical expertise and AI alignment, requiring you to craft nuanced scenarios that stress-test model safety across varying difficulty levels.
This position suits researchers, chemists, or safety professionals with deep domain knowledge who want to contribute directly to responsible AI development. You'll work independently from anywhere, completing discrete writing tasks on your own schedule. The engagement is listed at $65–$75 per task, with compensation reflecting the specialized expertise and careful judgment required.
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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