ADC Expert - Preclinical R&D

Mercor; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mercor is seeking an experienced preclinical R&D expert with hands-on ADC and/or bispecific antibody experience to guide data labeling and model‑building for next‑gen AI platforms. The role blends wet-lab insight with AI translational work, interfacing directly with the client team in an ongoing, part‑time engagement (roughly 10 hours/week).

Seniority ranges from IC to Director level. The candidate will review R&D materials, annotate data, and contribute to decision-making on target selection,

Qualifikationen

• Hands-on preclinical R&D experience at a company that develops its own drug assets
• Direct experience with ADCs and/or bispecific antibodies
• Core R&D function: discovery biology, medicinal chemistry, protein/antibody engineering, computational, PK-PD, toxicology or CMC/formulation
• 5+ years of relevant industry R&D experience
• Experience taking a program through lead optimization or IND-enabling/preclinical development

Aufgaben

• Review technical materials and real-world R&D data across ADC and/or bispecific programs
• Label, classify, and annotate scientific data and model outputs to improve model performance
• Provide expert perspective on key scientific and development decisions (target/modality selection, optimization, risk)
• Help define structure and quality standards for the client’s dataset pipeline
• Participate in expert discussions, interviews, and research engagements

Kenntnisse

Hands-on preclinical R&D

ADC/bispecific experience

Core R&D function

IND-enabling/preclinical

Data labeling & annotation

Ausbildung

PhD in biology/chemistry/biochemistry

Tools

Python/Jupyter

Jobbeschreibung

Mercor is partnering with a venture-backed AI lab building frontier AI platforms and physics-based foundation models for chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery. They're extending their platform into new areas of pharmaceutical development and are looking for hands-on ADC and/or bispecific experts to help guide what they build.

Are you a preclinical R&D scientist who has taken drug programs from the bench toward the clinic — and curious how AI is reshaping drug discovery? This is a hands-on role that blends your wet-lab and translational experience with a growing understanding of how scientific data trains the next generation of AI models.

In this role, you'll:

• Review technical materials and real-world R&D data across ADC and/or bispecific programs

• Label, classify, and annotate scientific data and model outputs to improve model performance

• Provide expert perspective on key scientific and development decisions (target/modality selection, optimization, trade-offs, risk)

• Help define structure and quality standards for the client's dataset pipeline

• Participate in expert discussions, interviews, and research engagements

You're a strong fit if you:

• Have hands-on, non-administrative preclinical R&D experience at a company that develops its own drug assets in-house and has taken programs to the clinic — Must Have

• Have direct experience with ADCs and/or bispecific (or multispecific) antibodies — Must Have

• Work in a core R&D function: discovery biology, medicinal chemistry, protein/antibody engineering, computational, in vivo/translational, pharmacology/PK-PD, toxicology, or CMC/formulation — Must Have

• Have 5+ years of relevant industry R&D experience (flexible based on depth)

• Have taken a program through lead optimization or IND-enabling/preclinical development (nice to have)

• Have experience at mid-sized, emerging, or resource-constrained biotech — ideally currently outside the top-20 pharmaceutical companies (nice to have)

This is a hands-on preclinical R&D role — likely not the right fit if your work is mainly CRO/CDMO services, academic-only, QC/analytical-only, clinical-development-only, diagnostics, or regulatory/medical-writing.

Your work will directly feed into the models reshaping how medicines are discovered, helping intelligent systems reason about real-world pharmaceutical R&D.

Here are more details about the role:

• You will interface directly with the client team.

• This is an ongoing, part-time engagement of roughly 10 hours per week.

• Seniority welcome from individual contributor through Director.