Part-Time Preclinical R&D Scientist for AI-Driven Drug

Mercor; Paris; À distance; EUR 83 000 - 138 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Mercor is partnering with a venture-backed AI lab building frontier AI platforms for chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery. They are expanding into pharmaceutical development and seek hands-on preclinical R&D experts across modalities to guide what they build.

In this role you blend wet-lab and translational experience with data-science understanding to improve AI model training. The position is a part-time engagement in Paris, with seniority from IC to Director welcomed.

Qualifications

• Hands-on preclinical R&D experience at a company developing its own drug assets in-house.
• Experience across discovery biology, medicinal chemistry, or related fields.
• Experience taking a program toward clinic or IND-enabling activities.
• Experience in mid-sized or emerging biotech environments.

Responsabilités

• Review technical materials and real-world R&D data in your area of expertise.
• 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.

Connaissances

Preclinical R&D

Discovery biology

Medicinal chemistry

Protein engineering

Antibody engineering

Computational biology

Pharmacology/PK-PD

Toxicology

CMC/formulation

IND-enabling

Description du poste

Mercor is partnering with a venture-backed AI lab building frontier AI platforms for chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery. They are expanding into pharmaceutical development and seek hands-on preclinical R&D experts across modalities to guide what they build.

In this role you blend wet-lab and translational experience with data-science understanding to improve AI model training. The position is a part-time engagement in Paris, with seniority from IC to Director welcomed.