AI Chemical Security Researcher

Beijing- and Singapore-based social enterprise conducting AI safety and governance research, advisory work, policy engagement, convenings, and frontier-model risk monitoring.

Beijing, China; Singapore
About Concordia AI

Concordia AI advances global AI safety and governance through research, consulting for AI companies and policymakers, convenings, policy work, and its Frontier AI Risk Monitoring Platform.

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Skills

About the Role

You will conduct end-to-end research on frontier AI and chemical security. You will create threat models and benchmarks, red-team high-risk chemical tasks, validate safeguards, and translate research and policy developments into reports, recommendations, and technical proposals.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or above in Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Toxicology, Chemical Biology, or a related field
  • AI
  • Chemistry
  • Technical feasibility evaluation
  • Chemical risk evaluation
  • Chinese reading, writing, and spoken communication

Responsibilities

  • Develop chemical-security threat models with domain experts
  • Define risk thresholds and assessment criteria for large models, chemistry-specific models, AI agents, and automated labs
  • Design benchmarks for AI chemical capability and safety
  • Assess model performance in chemical knowledge, task execution, and safety risk identification
  • Conduct red-teaming evaluations on high-risk chemical tasks
  • Identify safety vulnerabilities across models and systems
  • Explore and validate risk-mitigation strategies and protective safeguards
  • Monitor AI chemical-security research and policy developments
  • Convert findings into research reports, policy recommendations, and technical proposals

Hiring Process

Written application form → online written test → 2 online interviews → 2-day in-person work trial