Analytical Chemist - Remote AI Red-Teaming

What You'll Do6

• Craft challenging single-turn prompts in analytical chemistry and label each as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.
• Review model replies against a fixed policy standard and decide if each reply met that standard.
• Write reference answers that describe the correct response and the technical reasoning behind it.
• Draw the line between routine professional questions and requests that seek harmful information.
• Document your judgments in written rationales that a non-specialist can follow.
• Evaluate whether a model answered a legitimate question fully while refusing genuinely dangerous ones.

Requirements10

• Method development and validation for trace-level analysis of hazardous compounds.
• Detection and identification using GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, IR, or NMR.
• Environmental, occupational, or emergency-response sampling and analysis.
• Reference standards, spectral libraries, and unknown identification.
• Laboratory accreditation, QA/QC, and proficiency testing.
• Ability to tell a routine professional question from one seeking misuse information.
• Technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience. Include a sample or link.
• Red-teaming experience with AI models or similar adversarial evaluation is ideal.
• Disclose any classified, export-controlled, NDA, or prepublication-review obligations in your application.
• Comfort reading and writing about misuse scenarios in chemistry for sustained periods.

Who Should Apply

The strongest applicant has built and validated methods for hazardous compounds, knows what a detection limit really means, and can explain that judgment in writing. Experience with GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, IR, or NMR, plus environmental, occupational, or emergency-response sampling, fits the prompts you will write. Candidates who cannot separate a routine method-validation question from one fishing for evasion tactics will struggle, because every prompt sits on that dual-use line. The work involves sustained reading and writing about misuse scenarios, though the team briefs you in advance and you can pause or step away without penalty. Applicants often lose fit when they submit no writing sample or link, despite the role being writing-intensive; another common miss is ignoring the classified, export-controlled, NDA, or prepublication-review disclosure requirement.

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