Turing contracts chemistry postgraduates to write, solve, and annotate advanced chemistry problems — organic mechanisms, equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry — used to train and evaluate frontier language models. Work is fully remote, freelance, and multimodal: your answers pair written reasoning with structures, equations, and energy diagrams.

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What the work involves

You author original chemistry problems at postgraduate and competitive-entrance-exam difficulty, then produce the model answer: a full worked solution with every reasoning step made explicit. Much of it is multimodal — a mechanism question needs annotated curved arrows and intermediates, an equilibrium question needs a reaction-coordinate or concentration-versus-time diagram, a thermodynamics item needs the state functions laid out rather than assumed. A second strand of work is review: reading model output on chemistry prompts and marking exactly where the reasoning breaks — a wrong regiochemical outcome, a sign error in ΔG, an invented reagent, a correct answer reached by an invalid route.

What the platform screens for

Turing's screen is chemistry depth first. Expect to be pushed on a mechanism or a calculation and asked why — the follow-ups test whether you reason from principles or recall textbook conclusions. The second thing measured is explanation discipline: whether you can take a hard problem and decompose it into steps a grader can check, without hand-waving over the step that actually matters. Third is evaluation judgment — can you distinguish a model answer that is wrong from one that is merely differently formatted, and can you write feedback specific enough to act on. Screens typically include a work sample or a timed problem-authoring task.

Logistics

Fully remote, asynchronous, contractor engagement — no medical or paid leave.
Work is drawn from a task queue; throughput and quality both count toward continued allocation and contract extension.
You need your own desktop or laptop and reliable internet; diagram work means a real screen, not a phone.
Current PhD students and postdocs are explicitly welcomed, and the workload is usually compatible with an active research schedule.
Pay is not disclosed in the listing. Rates on Turing's STEM programs are typically hourly or per-task and vary by project and assessed level — confirm the band in writing before accepting tasks.

Chemistry Expert (PhD/Master's)

What the work involves

What the platform screens for

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