Biotechnology Expert
GeneralistRemotePart-timeAlways-open talent poolPosted Sep 15
Mercor keeps this listing open to build a pool of candidates. Applying puts you in the pool; it is not a single fresh opening.
Paid as a fixed feeThis opportunity lists pay as a fixed fee, rather than an hourly rate.
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for biotechnology judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.
This is a standing listing for biotech scientists who want AI training and evaluation work, not a specific job opening. It stays open whether or not a matching project is running this week.
New projects start on short notice, so instead of posting and pulling a listing each time, we keep one open per field and draw from it when one begins.
What the work looks like
We match biotech scientists in the network to projects like:
- Writing a development problem from a program you worked on, with the modality, the process step, and the specification it had to meet, plus the reference answer a model's attempt gets graded against
- Grading model-written process and assay development work: whether the scale-up assumptions hold, whether the potency assay measures what it claims, whether the release criteria are justified
- Flagging where a model's proposal is scientifically sound and would still fail a developability assessment, given manufacturability, stability, or what a regulator would accept
