Remote opportunity for PhD-level chemistry experts to evaluate AI model responses, create expert chemistry prompts, and contribute to AI safety initiatives involving scientific reasoning, chemical safety awareness, and technical accuracy.
Chemistry Specialist
Remote (Global)
June 14, 2026
Job description
About the Role
Turing is seeking a Chemistry Specialist (Chemical Reasoning & Discovery Engineer) to help evaluate and improve the scientific reasoning capabilities of advanced AI systems.
In this role, you will create chemistry-focused reasoning datasets that challenge Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze experimental and simulated chemical data, identify chemical relationships, infer reaction mechanisms, estimate parameters, and predict outcomes under varying conditions.
The position combines chemistry expertise, scientific reasoning, quantitative analysis, and evaluation design to help build more capable AI systems for scientific applications.
Key Responsibilities
Design Chemistry Reasoning Tasks
- Create chemistry-centered reasoning scenarios using experimental results, molecular datasets, and simulated chemical systems
- Develop tasks requiring pattern recognition, reaction analysis, property inference, parameter estimation, and predictive reasoning
Build Scientific Evaluation Problems
- Create evaluation challenges across reaction mechanisms, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, molecular behavior, and scientific consistency checks
- Design tasks that require multi-step scientific reasoning and problem solving
Develop Ground Truth Solutions
- Create deterministic answers and reference solutions
- Write detailed scientific explanations
- Build comprehensive scoring rubrics for model evaluation
Support AI Research
- Collaborate with reviewers and AI engineers
- Ensure datasets are scientifically accurate, logically consistent, reproducible, and clearly documented
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in Chemistry, Chemical Research, Scientific Computing, Laboratory Analysis, or related analytical disciplines
- Strong understanding of chemical principles, scientific methodology, quantitative modeling, and data interpretation
- Expertise in one or more of: Experimental Design, Reaction Mechanisms, Stoichiometry, Thermodynamics, Chemical Kinetics, Simulation-Based Analysis
- Strong scientific writing and documentation skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and logical reasoning
Work Expectations
- Minimum overlap of 4 hours with PST time zone
- Fully remote work environment
- Contractor engagement
- Duration of approximately 8 weeks
Benefits
- Fully remote work
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects
- Collaboration with leading LLM companies
- Potential contract extension based on performance and project needs
About Turing
Turing is a leading AI research accelerator that supports frontier AI laboratories and global enterprises through advanced training data, research expertise, and AI system development.
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Please submit your CV in English and indicate your level of English proficiency. Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems.