Biology & Life Sciences Domain Expert
MercorLegit · not rated yetPosted yesterday
Pay: $90–140/hr
- Who can apply
- Open only to people in United States
- Hours
- Hours vary · Contract
- Where
- Remote, work from home
- Job type
- Expert (SME) review
- Openings
- 10 openings
At a glance: A contract, remote expert (SME) review job with Mercor. It pays $90–140/hr, with hours that vary. Only people in United States can apply.
What happens after you click Apply
- You leave AI Trainer HQ and go to Mercor’s own site.
- Upload your résumé on work.mercor.com
- Confirm your work authorization
- Sit the AI interview, which takes about 20 minutes
- Complete any written assessment attached to the listing
- On receiving an offer, sign it, configure payouts and verify your identity
How this pay compares
This job pays more than 91% of the 211 other science (PhD) jobs on the board that state pay; 9% pay more.
- This job
- $115/hrMiddle of $90–140/hr
- Median on Mercor
- $76/hrFrom 314 other paid jobs
- Median in science (PhD)
- $65/hrFrom 211 other paid jobs
Requirements
- Qualifications
- Education: PhD in biochemistry, molecular or cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, or a closely related life science
- Seniority: A faculty appointment, principal investigator, staff or senior scientist, or an equivalent senior research role at a university, academic medical center, national laboratory, or research organization
- Domain depth: Genuine specialization in at least one area, for example molecular and cell biology, biochemistry and structural biology, immunology, genetics and genomics, neuroscience, or ecology and evolution
- Research record: A strong peer-reviewed publication record. Recognition such as competitive fellowships or awards is a plus
- AI fluency: Hands-on use of large language models in your work, and the judgment to tell a sound argument from a plausible-sounding wrong one
- Communication: Excellent written communication and the ability to give precise, well-structured feedback
- Location: Based in the United States
- Languages
- English
- Equipment
- Computer with a reliable internet connection
About this job
Help define how frontier AI models reason about biology and the life sciences.
1\. Overview
We are looking for senior biologists and life scientists to improve how frontier AI models reason about real life sciences research.
Your scientific judgment is the substance of this role. You will review the quality of life sciences reasoning tasks and model outputs, write the problem specifications and reference solutions that define what "correct" looks like, and design benchmarks that show whether a model is genuinely improving. We are looking for a practicing specialist rather than a generalist.
This role is fully remote.
2\. Key Responsibilities
• Expert review: Assess life sciences tasks and model outputs, catching mechanistic hand-waving, unsupported causal claims, flawed experimental design, and answers that read well but would not survive peer review.
• Problem specs and reference solutions: Write precise problem statements and rigorous reference solutions that reflect how life sciences research is actually done.
• Benchmarks: Design challenging, research-level problems and evaluation sets in your area of specialization.
• Calibration: Work with other researchers and experts in adjacent fields to turn tacit expert judgment into explicit, teachable criteria.
3\. Core Qualifications
• Education: PhD in biochemistry, molecular or cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, or a closely related life science.
• Seniority: A faculty appointment, principal investigator, staff or senior scientist, or an equivalent senior research role at a university, academic medical center, national laboratory, or research organization.
• Domain depth: Genuine specialization in at least one area, for example molecular and cell biology, biochemistry and structural biology, immunology, genetics and genomics, neuroscience, or ecology and evolution.
• Research record: A strong peer-reviewed publication record. Recognition such as competitive fellowships or awards is a plus.
• AI fluency: Hands-on use of large language models in your work, and the judgment to tell a sound argument from a plausible-sounding wrong one.
• Communication: Excellent written communication and the ability to give precise, well-structured feedback.
• Location: Based in the United States.
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