Biology Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $75/hr

mercor; India; Remote; INR 8,009,000 - 10,012,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Mercor seeks an Applied Biology Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role, offering $60–$75/hour and a commitment of 10+ hours per week.

The role centers on authoring advanced biology questions, rating difficulty, and delivering a single correct answer with multiple plausible distractors, plus references to scholarly sources.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, or closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for exceptional depth in a subdomain.
• Strong command of graduate-level biological concepts, experimental design, and data interpretation.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original biology questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise intermediate steps in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks, flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits.

Skills

Experimental design

Data interpretation

Graduate-level biology concepts

English writing

Education

PhD or doctoral candidate in Biology / related field

Master's degree considered for exceptional depth

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Applied Biology Benchmark Specialist
Type: Contract
Compensation: $60–$75/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Author original biology questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty as Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above).
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise intermediate steps in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources like peer-reviewed journals and university repositories.
• For verification tasks, flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Qualifications Must-Have

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Biology , Molecular Biology , Biochemistry , Neuroscience , or a closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
• Strong command of graduate-level biological concepts, experimental design, and data interpretation.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Preferred

• Research publications or laboratory experience in biological sciences is a strong plus.

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