Chemistry Expert (PhD)
Job Description
Role Title: Chemistry Expert (PhD)
Role Type: Contractor
Location: Remote
micro1 is engaging Chemistry Experts (PhD) to contribute their advanced subject-matter expertise to a customer’s AI training initiative. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters.
Scope of Work
Produce authoritative, accurate, and well-explained responses to advanced chemistry queries aimed at AI model improvement, emphasizing clarity and depth rather than rubric-based scoring.
Review and evaluate chemistry data, questions, and solutions to guarantee scientific accuracy, completeness, and current best-practice alignment.
Develop comprehensive explanations and justifications across a wide array of chemical concepts, spanning foundational and specialized areas of chemistry.
Collaborate with annotation leads and project managers to refine requirements and uphold high standards for response quality.
Create exemplary “golden responses” that set benchmarks for future model outputs, ensuring consistency and reliability in training data.
Document context and rationale behind answers to assist model interpretability and future annotation efforts.
Participate in remote discussions or workshops to clarify objectives and maintain alignment across the contributor community.
Preferred Qualifications
PhD in Chemistry or a closely related scientific field with robust expertise in both foundational and advanced topics.
Proven ability to communicate intricate chemistry concepts with precision in both written and verbal forms.
Experience in developing, reviewing, or publishing scientific, technical, or educational chemistry materials (such as research articles, curricula, industry reports, or peer reviews).
Familiarity with multiple sub-disciplines within chemistry (organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, materials science, etc.) and the ability to adapt explanations for diverse audiences.
Exceptional attention to detail with a commitment to scientific accuracy and methodological rigor.
Experience with AI, data annotation, or digital content development projects is advantageous but not essential.
Strong collaboration skills, particularly in remote or cross-functional environments.
About Micro1
Micro1 is building the essential infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence, moving beyond the limitations of static datasets to create a dynamic ecosystem where models truly learn to think and act. At its core, the company understands that the path to frontier intelligence isn't paved with synthetic data alone; it requires the nuance, judgment, and contextual awareness that only expert human guidance can provide. By positioning itself at the intersection of human expertise and advanced reinforcement learning, Micro1 is tackling the hardest problem in AI today: teaching models not just to answer questions, but to reason through complexity and take meaningful actions in unpredictable, real-world environments.
This mission comes to life through Realm, Micro1's flagship training environment. Realm functions as a high-fidelity simulation ground where AI agents are immersed in scenarios that closely mirror the messiness of actual human workflows. Rather than relying on abstract benchmarks, Realm forces models to engage in agentic actions, multi-step decisions, digital navigation, coding, and problem-solving that require genuine comprehension. It is within these realistic sandboxes that world-class human data is generated, creating a continuous feedback loop where expert annotators observe, correct, and guide model behavior. This process does more than just fine-tune outputs; it fundamentally elevates a model's underlying reasoning architecture, ensuring that the intelligence developed in training holds up when deployed into the wild.
But training is only half the equation. Micro1 recognizes that the true test of an AI system lies in its production performance, which is where Cortex enters the picture. Cortex is a contextual evaluation platform designed to move beyond superficial accuracy metrics and provide a granular, real-time view of how agents behave in live settings. It doesn't just flag errors; it surfaces the underlying context behind failures, revealing why an agent struggled with a particular user intent or environmental variable. This insight is invaluable for engineering teams, as it transforms evaluation from a passive checkpoint into an active improvement tool. With Cortex, companies can catch degradation early, understand the nuances of edge cases, and feed those learnings directly back into Realm for retraining, creating a virtuous cycle of continuous advancement.
Ultimately, Micro1 is not merely a data lab or an evaluation tool it is a comprehensive intelligence engine that connects the entire lifecycle of model development. From the expert human feedback that sharpens raw capability, to the realistic RL environments that forge robust agentic behavior, to the contextual oversight that ensures reliability in production, Micro1 provides the integrated foundation that AI labs and enterprises desperately need. As the industry races toward truly autonomous systems, Micro1 stands as the critical bridge between laboratory breakthroughs and dependable, real-world impact, ensuring that frontier models do not just perform well on paper, but deliver genuine value in the complex, dynamic world they are meant to serve.