Chemistry Research Collaborator (Part-time) $110 per hour

About the role

We are recruiting a select cohort of accomplished chemistry researchers to contribute to the next generation of AI systems for scientific reasoning. Our partner labs are building models that need to reason about organic synthesis, mechanism, catalysis, structural and physical chemistry, chemical biology, computational and theoretical chemistry, and materials at the level of a working researcher — not a textbook. To get there, they need contributors whose own research sits at the frontier.

Responsibilities

• Review and evaluate research papers in chemistry for correctness, novelty, and significance
• Author and review challenging chemistry problems used to train and evaluate frontier AI models
• Evaluate model outputs on tasks ranging from retrosynthesis and mechanism prediction to spectral interpretation, computational chemistry, and literature reasoning
• Collaborate with a small program team and other senior contributors

Requirements

• First-author or co-first-author publications in journals such as JACS, Nature Chemistry, Science, Nature, Angewandte Chemie, Nature Catalysis, ACS Catalysis, Chem (Cell Press), Chemical Reviews, Chem Soc Rev, the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Organic Letters, Inorganic Chemistry, or Nature Communications
• A doctorate or postdoctoral training from a top-20 global institution in chemistry or a related STEM field
• A competitive fellowship, such as an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Hertz Fellowship, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus award, a Searle Scholar or Pew Scholar award, a Beckman Young Investigator award, an NIH F32/NRSA, a Damon Runyon, Helen Hay Whitney, Marie Curie, Fulbright, Rhodes, Marshall, Gates Cambridge, or Schmidt Science Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, or a DOE Early Career award
• Issued patents, a spin-out company, or grants held as a named Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator
• An International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) Gold, Silver, or Bronze medal
• Current or recent experience in an active research role, as a PhD candidate, postdoctoral researcher, instructor, faculty member, principal scientist, or industry researcher

Qualifications

• Outstanding senior PhD students and recent graduates with strong publication records are strongly encouraged to apply; the depth of your research output matters more than years of experience.

Skills

Not specified

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

Compensation reflects research seniority and credentials

Schedule

Part-time: up to 20 hours per week