Biologist (AI Training)

DataAnnotation; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 142,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, remote work

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking biology-savvy contributors to craft prompts that probe molecular mechanisms, experimental design, and data interpretation for AI models.

You'll review model outputs for fabrication, rate reasoning, and correct or ground answers in primary literature, working remotely on a project basis with flexible hours.

Relevant candidates have graduate-level biology background or equivalent research experience, strong English writing, and comfort with critical reading of literature.

Qualifications

• Graduate-level biology background or equivalent research experience.
• Comfort reading primary literature critically.
• Clear written English: explanations are the training signal.

Responsibilities

• Write prompts that probe biological reasoning: molecular mechanisms, experimental design, and data interpretation.
• Review AI output for fabricated citations, overstated claims, and misread experiments, and rate the reasoning.
• Write the correct answer when the model falls short, grounded in the actual literature.

Skills

Biology knowledge

Education

Graduate-level biology background or equivalent research experience

Job description

Overview

Models blur the line between what's established, what's contested, and what's simply made up in the life sciences, and they cite papers that don't exist.

What you’ll actually do

• Write prompts that probe biological reasoning: molecular mechanisms, experimental design, and data interpretation.
• Review AI output for fabricated citations, overstated claims, and misread experiments, and rate the reasoning.
• Write the correct answer when the model falls short, grounded in the actual literature.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: Biologist, Molecular Biologist.

What we look for

• Graduate-level biology background or equivalent research experience.
• Comfort reading primary literature critically.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Compensation

Up to $125+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 1M+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Hundreds of millions paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.