Drug Discovery Scientist
Mercor
$60 – $90/hour · as listed
As a Drug Discovery Scientist on the Mercor platform, you'll design and evaluate AI model performance in realistic pharmaceutical research scenarios. Your work involves creating complex research problems grounded in messy, incomplete data—the kind domain experts encounter in actual drug development. You'll assess how frontier AI systems reason through ambiguous evidence, use open-source scientific tools, and reach defensible conclusions under uncertainty. This remote role suits scientists with STEM expertise and intermediate-level knowledge who can bridge pharmaceutical research and AI evaluation.
The position is structured as hourly remote work at $60–$90/hour, approximately 20 hours per week. You'll work in a sandbox environment where AI models operate offline, testing their ability to handle indirect, sometimes contradictory data typical of early-stage discovery. This AI data work requires both domain depth and the ability to craft scenarios that challenge cutting-edge models meaningfully, making it ideal for researchers who understand the nuances of drug research workflows.
From the listing: Mercor marketplace · hourly · 20h/week. About the role This is an evaluation framework for frontier AI models in drug research and development. Domain experts write realistic research problems wrapped around messy evidence worlds. The model works offline in a sandbox with open-source scientific tooling, receiving incomplete, indirect and sometimes misleading data, and must reach a defensible conclusion. The answer is present in the
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