Drug Discovery Scientist - PhD
$60 - $90 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: Drug Discovery Scientist
Type: Contract
Compensation: $60–$90/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20–40 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Design realistic research problems for AI models in drug research and development.
- Build a data room from real, source-grounded data ensuring every value traces to a real source.
- Write a grading document to score submissions on substance, not style or method.
- Validate and calibrate tasks before submission to ensure accuracy and depth.
- Revise tasks based on reviewer feedback, maintaining authority on scientific and difficulty questions.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Expertise in mechanistic enzymology , structure-guided peptide or antibody design , fragment-based discovery , or structure-based medicinal chemistry .
- PhD or equivalent industry track record.
- Ability to pose defensible problems that require genuine reasoning.
- Comfortable judging reasoning quality, not just final answers.
Compensation & Legal
- Hourly contractor
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
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Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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