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Forensic / Toxicological Chemist — Dual-Use AI Red-Teaming (Mercor)
What the work involves
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.
What you'll do
- Write challenging single-turn prompts in forensic and toxicological chemistry, labelled benign, dual-use or adversarial
- Evaluate the model's responses against a defined policy standard and judge whether each was handled correctly
- Write the reference answer — what a correct response looks like and the technical reasoning for why
- Draw the line between a routine professional question and one that is fishing for something else
Requirements & eligibility
- Practitioner background in forensic chemistry or toxicology with hands-on casework
- Experience identifying substances and precursors, and defending the conclusion in a report or on the stand
- Ideally prior red-teaming experience
- Strong technical writing, published research or expert-witness experience (sample or link requested)
- No reliance on classified, export-controlled or NDA-covered information
How to apply
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