Agentic Life Science Expert

Zettamine Labs; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

ZettaMine seeks a highly skilled Agentic Life Science Expert for a remote, contract-based role. You will design and implement authentic, multi-step scientific workflows across life sciences, translating research stages into self-contained computational environments.

Strong emphasis on reproducible methods, rigorous validation, and robust task grading. Ideal candidates hold a PhD (or equivalent) with advanced computational biology experience, including Python programming, Docker/Linux usage, and

Qualifications

• Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced research experience in Life Sciences with strong computational programming skills.
• Strong programming in Python and experience with scientific libraries and command-line tools.
• Experience in Linux/terminal environments and reproducible scientific workflows.
• Ability to validate calculations, code, and outputs independently.
• Experience with fast, robust, self-contained computational tasks in controlled environments.

Responsibilities

• Design authentic, multi-step Life Science tasks based on real research workflows.
• Translate workflows into self-contained computational environments.
• Create tasks requiring multi-step analyses across genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, and related fields.
• Prepare input files and datasets, define constraints, and expected outputs.
• Implement solutions using Python, command-line tools, and domain-specific software.
• Develop reproducible expert solutions and objective grading criteria.

Skills

Python programming

Linux

Computational life sciences

Workflow development

Debugging and validation

Docker/Linux environments

AI systems experience

Education

PhD/Postdoc or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Linux

Bioinformatics tools

Job description

Hello,

Greetings from ZettaMine!!!

Role:

Agentic Life Science Expert

Experience:

Ph.D., Postdoctoral Experience, or Equivalent Advanced Research Experience

Mode: Remote-Freelance

Engagement: Contractor / Short-Term Contract

Start: Immediate

Mandatory Eligibility Criteria

Technical Qualification:

• Strong scientific programming skills in Python, command-line tools, scientific libraries, or other relevant computational technologies.
• Experience working in Linux or terminal-based environments.
• Strong knowledge of computational life sciences, scientific computing, computational research methodologies, and multi-step scientific analysis.
• Ability to independently implement, test, debug, and validate computational scientific workflows.
• Ability to independently validate scientific reasoning, calculations, code, intermediate results, and final computational outputs.
• Ability to develop rigorous scientific tasks with clearly defined inputs, expected outputs, constraints, ground truths, and evaluation criteria.
• Experience working with scientific datasets, biological data, computational models, input files, research pipelines, and domain-specific scientific tools.
• Ability to develop and validate multi-step computational workflows involving bioinformatics, genomics, systems biology, neuroscience, biostatistics, drug discovery, biochemistry, structural biology, protein engineering, or microbiology.
• Ability to troubleshoot intermediate results, dependencies, scientific assumptions, computational errors, data-processing issues, and output inconsistencies.
• Ability to develop reproducible and objectively verifiable scientific workflows.
• Ability to design tasks that are self-contained and executable in controlled, network-isolated computational environments.
• Ability to validate scientific outputs for accuracy, consistency, reproducibility, and scientific correctness.

Educational Qualification:

Mandatory: Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced research experience in Life Sciences, with strong demonstrated computational and scientific programming experience.

Preferred: Advanced research or professional experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics, Systems Biology, Computational Neuroscience, Biostatistics, Computational Drug Discovery, Computational Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Protein Engineering, Computational Microbiology, Computational Life Sciences, or related fields.

Availability:

• Full-Time 40 Hours per Week.
• Minimum 4 hours of PST overlap per day.
• Ability to work remotely on a short-term AI training and evaluation project.
• Immediate availability preferred.
• Ability to collaborate with project reviewers and incorporate feedback.
• Availability according to project requirements and deadlines.

Others:

• Personal laptop/desktop and stable high-speed internet.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong scientific programming experience, particularly in Python.
• Experience working with scientific libraries, command-line tools, Linux, and computational research environments.
• Experience performing multi-step computational scientific analyses.
• Experience developing reproducible scientific and research pipelines.
• Ability to ensure computational tasks are self-contained, reproducible, and executable in controlled network-isolated environments.
• Ability to package required dependencies, scientific data, and computational resources within the project environment.
• Strong attention to scientific accuracy, documentation, reproducibility, and computational validation.
• Experience with Docker/Linux environments is preferred.
• Experience with AI agents, coding agents, or scientific AI systems is advantageous.
• Experience building automated evaluation environments, scientific benchmarks, or automated graders is preferred.
• Publications involving computational or data-intensive life sciences research are advantageous.
• Ability to translate authentic research workflows into bounded and objectively gradable scientific tasks.

What You'll Work On:

• Design authentic, multi-step Agentic Life Sciences tasks based on realistic research and computational workflows.
• Translate scientific and life sciences research workflows into self-contained computational environments.
• Create challenging and realistic scientific workflows across the life sciences that require multiple computational steps rather than simple question-and-answer or single-script solutions.
• Prepare realistic input files, scientific datasets, instructions, constraints, computational resources, and expected deliverables.
• Implement expert solutions using Python, command-line tools, scientific libraries, and relevant domain-specific software.
• Create tasks involving bioinformatics, computational genomics, systems biology, computational neuroscience, biostatistics, computational drug discovery, computational biochemistry, structural biology, protein engineering, and computational microbiology.
• Build tasks requiring AI agents to inspect scientific data, select appropriate methods, execute analyses, troubleshoot problems, interpret intermediate results, and synthesize final outputs.
• Develop reproducible expert solutions and objectively verifiable ground truths.
• Develop robust automated or semi-automated grading criteria for scientific outputs.
• Ensure tasks evaluate scientific reasoning and execution rather than memorization.
• Validate scientific assumptions, calculations, code, intermediate outputs, and final answers.
• Validate that tasks are self-contained, reproducible, and execute successfully in controlled, network-isolated computational environments.
• Document scientific assumptions, computational requirements, dependencies, expected outputs, evaluation criteria, and known limitations.
• Maintain high quality and throughput while incorporating feedback from project reviewers.
• Develop benchmark tasks that evaluate whether AI agents can independently navigate scientific data, reason through complex life sciences problems, write and execute code, use computational tools, troubleshoot intermediate results, perform multi-step scientific analyses, and produce accurate, reproducible, and objectively verifiable scientific outputs.

Thanks & Regards,

Karthik K

ZettaMine