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Role Overview
We are seeking expert chemists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core chemistry domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.
You will be assigned one of two task types:
Question Authoring — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of chemistry expertise, rate their difficulty, and submit them for review.
Question Verification — Review pre-written questions for accuracy, clarity, and rigor. Edit where needed, rate difficulty, and document any changes made.
Chemistry Domains Covered
Materials, Polymer & Electronic Chemistry, Industrial & Process Chemistry, Energy Storage & Environmental Chemistry, Pharmaceutical & Agrochemical Chemistry, Consumer, Food & Specialty Chemicals.
Key Responsibilities
Author original chemistry questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall
Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all necessary information must be in the problem statement
Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above)
Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers
Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise intermediate steps in markdown format
Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources (peer-reviewed journals, university repositories)
For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made
Ideal Qualifications
PhD or doctoral candidate in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a closely related field
Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain
Strong command of graduate-level chemistry concepts, reaction mechanisms, and quantitative analysis
Experience with rigorous academic problem design or chemistry olympiad writing is a strong plus
Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely
More About the Opportunity
Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week
Asynchronous, fully remote work
This is a 100% remote contract role. Applicants must be located in: United States.
