Chemistry Assessment Specialist

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Gridnaut Recruiting seeks expert chemists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. Workers will develop rigorous multiple-choice questions spanning core chemistry domains and help establish benchmarks for AI capability assessment.

Location: Remote (US-based applicants only)

Employment Type: Other (Contract/Freelance)

Compensation: $35-$75/hour

Referral Bonus: $300

Posted: March 28, 2026

Task Types (Two Options):

- Question Authoring: Develop original challenging multiple-choice questions in chemistry expertise areas, rate difficulty levels, and submit for review.

- Question Verification: Examine pre-written questions for accuracy and clarity, edit as needed, rate difficulty, and document modifications.

Chemistry Domains: Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Miscellaneous Chemistry

Key Responsibilities:

- Create questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall

- Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined

- Assign difficulty ratings: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), Expert (post-graduate+)

- Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but incorrect alternatives

- Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format

- Supply 1-5 academic references per question from peer-reviewed sources

- Flag clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability issues during verification

Ideal Qualifications:

- PhD or doctoral candidate in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related field

- Master's degree acceptable for candidates with exceptional subdomain depth

- Strong command of graduate-level chemistry concepts, reaction mechanisms, and quantitative analysis

- Experience with rigorous academic problem design or chemistry olympiad writing preferred

- Excellent written English proficiency

Commitment: 10+ hours per week, asynchronous, fully remote

DURATION

Contract, ongoing with potential for extension based on performance. Approximately 20 hours per week.

COMPENSATION

$55 per hour (hourly contract).

LOCATION

Fully remote. US-based applicants only.