Drug Discovery Specialist - AI Trainer
$1,150 - $1,450 per monthMercor
Job Description
Job Description
About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .
Position: Pharmaceutical Research Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $1,150–$1,450 per completed task
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include study protocols, investigator brochures, IND/NDA drafts , pharmacology reports, biomarker analyses, CMC technical reports , and email threads. Represent platforms like Medidata Rave , Oracle Clinical One , Schrödinger Suite , and Benchling .
- Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents .
- Collaborate with other pharmaceutical-research experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
- Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for pharma-research agent benchmarks.
- Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. The work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems .
Qualifications
Must-Have
- PhD , MD , PharmD , or MS with deep experience; industry fellowship training a plus.
- 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 pharma/biotech or top academic research center.
- Background in areas such as target ID/drug discovery, preclinical/translational research, clinical development, regulatory affairs, or real-world evidence.
- Day-to-day use of Medidata Rave , Oracle Clinical One , Schrödinger Suite , and Benchling .
- Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.
Compensation & Legal
- Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~$1,150–$1,450 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves).
- Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate.
- Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may be invited to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
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