AI Tutor, Electrochemistry & Functional Materials Specialist (contract), Handshake AI

Handshake · Enterprise · Remote · AI Trainer

This role involves designing and evaluating chemistry prompts for AI models, focusing on scientific reasoning and identifying model breakdowns. The specialist will act as a subject matter expert in electrochemistry and functional materials, applying adversarial prompting and assessing the accuracy of AI-generated responses.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create and evaluate complex chemistry prompts across electrochemistry, functional materials, surface chemistry, and solid-state chemistry
  2. Apply adversarial prompting strategies to induce and document model reasoning errors
  3. Critically assess the accuracy, depth, and scientific validity of AI-generated responses
  4. Contribute to quality standards and provide calibrated feedback to the broader team

Skills

Required

  • Chemistry expertise
  • AI model evaluation
  • Prompt design
  • Scientific reasoning assessment
  • Written communication
  • Analytical skills

Nice to have

  • Publications in peer-reviewed chemistry or physics journals
  • Adversarial prompting
  • Model evaluation
  • AI red teaming
  • Teaching/tutoring experience
  • Computational chemistry tools
  • Scientific annotation
  • Technical quality assurance

What the JD emphasized

  • PhD in Chemistry or a closely related field
  • Graduate-level expertise across multiple areas of Chemistry
  • Prior hands-on experience in AI data annotation or RLHF

Other signals

  • AI model evaluation
  • scientific reasoning
  • chemistry prompts