Pharmaceutical Research Specialist - PhD
$60 - $80 per hourMercor
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: $60–$80/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include study protocols, investigator brochures, IND/NDA drafts, pharmacology reports, biomarker analyses, CMC technical reports, DMC briefing documents, and email threads. Represent platforms like Medidata Rave , Oracle Clinical One , Schrödinger Suite , Benchling , and LabArchives .
- Design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows. Require navigation of 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 target ID/drug discovery, preclinical/translational research, clinical development, regulatory affairs, or CMC.
- Day-to-day use of Medidata Rave , Oracle Clinical One , Schrödinger Suite , MOE (CCG) , Benchling , and LabArchives .
- Strong analytical thinking and writing. Able to translate pharma R&D workflows into structured task specs.
Compensation & Legal
- Project starts with an effective hourly rate. Transition to compensation based on throughput of quality work.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
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