Analytical Chemist — Dual-Use AI Red-Teaming (Mercor)

Mercor is assembling a panel of chemistry and chemical safety experts to red-team frontier AI models, testing whether a model can correctly judge the misuse potential of a technical request — answering legitimate questions fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones. You'll write challenging single-turn prompts in your domain labelled across three levels (benign, dual-use and adversarial), evaluate the responses that come back against a defined policy standard and judge whether each was handled correctly, and write the reference answer — what a correct response looks like, and the technical reasoning for why.

This domain sits on the dual-use line more than most, so a model that refuses a routine professional question is failing as badly as one that answers a question it shouldn't. Drawing that line reliably is why Mercor wants practitioners rather than generalists. The work is writing-intensive and fully remote.