Drug Discovery Scientist

Posted 17hrs ago

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Drug Discovery Scientist creating realistic, evidence-grounded drug research challenges for Mercor’s frontier AI training. Building prompts, data rooms, grading documents, and defensible scientific evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities:

  • Design realistic research problems for frontier AI models in drug research and development
  • Create prompts, data rooms, and grading documents for each task
  • Identify hidden basins and forcing chains leading to defensible conclusions
  • Assemble data rooms from real, source-grounded evidence
  • Write grading documents that assess submitted memos on substance
  • Run verification and calibration before submission
  • Revise work when reviewers request changes
  • Serve as final authority on scientific and difficulty questions for assigned tasks

Requirements:

  • Working 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, rigorous research problems that cannot be shortcut by strong solvers
  • Comfortable judging reasoning quality, not just final answers
  • Commitment of at least 20 hours per week, up to 40 hours
  • Claude Max subscription required
  • Independent contractor status
  • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates

Benefits:

  • Claude Max subscription fully reimbursed
  • Fully remote work
  • Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Competitive pay
  • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral payments of up to $360 for successful referrals