About this role
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for chemistry judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.
This is a standing listing for chemists who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week.
New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.
What the work looks like
We match chemists in the network to projects like
- Writing a synthesis or characterization problem from your own work, with the substrate, the conditions, and the analytical data, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against
- Grading model-proposed routes and mechanisms: whether the disconnection is sensible, whether the selectivity claim is supported, whether the spectra match the structure assigned
- Flagging where a model proposes something that works on paper and fails in the flask, given side reactivity, workup losses, or what the reagent tolerates
Past rates have run $65 to $105 an hour, set per project by scope and depth.
What we're looking for
- A graduate degree in chemistry or a related field, with laboratory or computational research experience
- Clear written communication, since most of the work involves explaining your reasoning
- Comfort with ambiguous tasks, and willingness to flag unclear instructions