Chemistry Domain Expert

What You'll Do5

• Review chemistry tasks and model responses, flagging implausible mechanisms, reactions that cannot run, stoichiometric or thermodynamic mistakes, and spectra read the wrong way.
• Separate answers that sound convincing from answers that would survive peer review, then name the exact point where the reasoning fails.
• Write tight problem statements and worked reference solutions that mirror how research chemistry actually gets done.
• Build evaluation sets of research-level problems inside your specialty, hard enough to expose real gaps in a model.
• Compare notes with researchers in adjacent fields so unwritten expert instincts turn into written, testable criteria.

Requirements7

• PhD in chemistry, chemical engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Current senior research standing: faculty appointment, principal investigator, staff or senior scientist, or a similar post at a university, national laboratory, or research organization.
• Genuine depth in one area such as organic and synthetic, physical and computational, inorganic and materials, analytical chemistry, or chemical biology.
• A peer-reviewed publication record. Competitive fellowships or awards count in your favor.
• Hands-on use of large language models at work, plus the judgment to spot a fluent but wrong argument.
• Strong writing habits and feedback that stays structured, specific, and easy to act on.
• Residence in the United States.

Who Should Apply

Practicing chemists who hold a PhD and run an active research program, whether in synthetic, computational, analytical, or materials chemistry. You already put large language models to work and can tell a sound mechanism from a polished error. Senior lab standing and a publication record outweigh generalist breadth.

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