Forensic/Toxicological Chemist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Craft complex single-turn prompts within the fields of chemistry and chemical safety.

• Classify prompts as benign, dual-use, or adversarial.

• Assess model responses based on a specified policy standard.

• Evaluate whether responses accurately addressed technical inquiries.

• Develop reference answers that explain correct responses along with the technical rationale behind them.

• Generate prompts that differentiate legitimate professional inquiries from those seeking harmful information.

• Provide written justifications for decisions that are accessible to non-specialists.

• Engage in reading and writing about misuse scenarios for extended periods.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in conducting casework to identify substances and precursors.

• Proven ability to defend conclusions in reports or during testimony.

• Background in controlled substance casework within a forensic laboratory, including identification and quantification.

• Experience in responding to clandestine laboratory incidents, precursor identification, and scene chemistry.

• Knowledge in forensic toxicology, encompassing postmortem or human performance casework.

• Familiarity with monitoring trends in seized drugs and precursors or intelligence analysis.

• Experience providing expert testimony and writing reports related to chemical casework.

• Strong capability to differentiate between routine professional inquiries and potentially harmful requests.

• Excellent technical writing skills; all judgments must include a rationale that is understandable to non-specialists.

• Previous technical writing, published research, or expert witness experience is highly valued.

• Must refrain from using classified or export-controlled information, information covered by NDAs, or information subject to prepublication review requirements.

• Required to disclose any relevant confidentiality obligations to ensure appropriate work scoping.

🏝️ Benefits

• Up to $250 for each successful referral (certain referral limits apply).

• Reasonable accommodations available upon request.

• Opportunity to pause or withdraw from misuse-scenario content at any time without consequence.