SME CareersDomain experts
Chemist
up to $70/hr
About this role, in SME Careers' words
We’re seeking chemists to join our AI training project. In this role, you will review AI-generated responses, evaluate the reasoning quality and step-by-step problem-solving, and provide expert feedback that helps models produce answers that are accurate, logical, and clearly explained. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in calculations, methodology, or conceptual understanding; fact-check chemical information across; write high-quality chemical explanations and model solutions that demonstrate correct methods; and rate and compare multiple AI responses based on chemical correctness and reasoning quality.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts in various topics and responses to guide AI learning, ensuring the models reflect a comprehensive understanding of diverse subjects.
- Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance the model's accuracy, fluency, and contextual relevance.
- Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI models for potential inaccuracies or biases, validating their reliability across use cases.
Candidate background
Requirements
- You hold an MS or PhD in Chemistry or a related field in a high ranking university.
- Confident in chemical reactions and stoichiometry, organic mechanisms, analytical methods, and physical/quantum chemistry.
- Expert at fact-checking information using public sources across multiple domains. You communicate chemistry clearly and turn advanced theory into real-world solutions.
- English proficiency C1 and above with excellent writing skills.
- Background in research, analytical writing, debate, programming, or chemistry is preferred.
- Bonus: Data labeling, RLHF, or AI model evaluation experience.
- You enjoy applying chemical reasoning to evaluate and improve AI capabilities.
- For PHD holders: you have developed or critically reviewed complex chemistry content (e.g., problem banks, proofs, textbook sections, research notes).
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in SME Careers' words
Posted by SME Careers, reproduced here so you can judge the role before clicking. Original posting ↗
We’re seeking chemists to join our AI training project. In this role, you will review AI-generated responses, evaluate the reasoning quality and step-by-step problem-solving, and provide expert feedback that helps models produce answers that are accurate, logical, and clearly explained. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, and adherence to the prompt; identify errors in calculations, methodology, or conceptual understanding; fact-check chemical information across; write high-quality chemical explanations and model solutions that demonstrate correct methods; and rate and compare multiple AI responses based on chemical correctness and reasoning quality.
Responsibilities
• Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts in various topics and responses to guide AI learning, ensuring the models reflect a comprehensive understanding of diverse subjects.
• Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance the model's accuracy, fluency, and contextual relevance.
• Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI models for potential inaccuracies or biases, validating their reliability across use cases.
Requirements
• You hold an MS or PhD in Chemistry or a related field in a high ranking university.
• Confident in chemical reactions and stoichiometry, organic mechanisms, analytical methods, and physical/quantum chemistry.
• Expert at fact-checking information using public sources across multiple domains. You communicate chemistry clearly and turn advanced theory into real-world solutions.
• English proficiency C1 and above with excellent writing skills.
• Background in research, analytical writing, debate, programming, or chemistry is preferred.
• Bonus: Data labeling, RLHF, or AI model evaluation experience.
• You enjoy applying chemical reasoning to evaluate and improve AI capabilities.
• For PHD holders: you have developed or critically reviewed complex chemistry content (e.g., problem banks, proofs, textbook sections, research notes).
Location: Remote
How does the pay compare?Across Domain experts roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from SME Careers's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Domain experts
Across 699 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $70, is in the middle half. Of the 261 distinct rates we count, 76 are lower and 174 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 149 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| micro1 | 136 | $28 to $400 · median $110 |
| AfterQuery | 88 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Handshake AI | 79 | $30 to $300 · median $85 |
| Mercor | 78 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 6 Oct 2026, and still on SME Careers's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by SME Careers
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- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 4246a274-0b9e-4f9c-9d0d-0d8c0be77fa8
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