AI Benchmark Biologist — Remote Contract

Synthires; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 61,000 - 77,000; Part time

Job summary

Synthires is seeking biology specialists to author and verify high-quality academic assessment content for an AI benchmarking project. This remote, hourly contract emphasizes deep conceptual biology knowledge, data interpretation, and rigorous problem design for gold-standard benchmarks.

Responsibilities include creating challenging questions, including a correct answer and distractors, with Markdown explanations and multiple references. Remote, asynchronous work expects ~10+ hours weekly.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral-level study in Biology or closely related field.
• Graduate-level biological concepts and experimental design knowledge.
• Ability to formulate, solve, and critically evaluate advanced biological problems.

Responsibilities

• Author original, challenging multiple-choice biology questions that assess deep conceptual understanding.
• Review and verify pre-written biology questions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, rigor, and solvability.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined, with all necessary information.
• Assign difficulty ratings as Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide one correct answer and nine plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Develop clear, step-by-step solutions with concise intermediate reasoning in Markdown format.
• Provide 1–5 reputable academic references for each question.
• Identify and document issues involving clarity, precision, completeness, or solvability.
• Apply rigorous scientific standards to support high-quality AI benchmarking.

Skills

Biology expertise

Assessment design

Data interpretation

Academic English writing

Education

PhD in Biology or related field

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Synthires is seeking biology specialists to author and verify high-quality academic assessment content for an AI benchmarking project. This remote, hourly contract emphasizes deep conceptual biology knowledge, data interpretation, and rigorous problem design for gold-standard benchmarks.

Responsibilities include creating challenging questions, including a correct answer and distractors, with Markdown explanations and multiple references. Remote, asynchronous work expects ~10+ hours weekly.