Biological Content Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $75/hr

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor, headquartered in San Francisco, seeks an Applied Biology Benchmark Specialist for a remote, part-time contract role. The position pays $60–$75 per hour and requires 10+ hours of work weekly.

You will craft advanced biology questions, assess difficulty levels, and provide credible references to support solutions. Ideal candidates hold a PhD or are doctoral candidates with strong graduate biology knowledge, experimental design skills, and data interpretation ability.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Biology or closely related field
• Graduate-level biology concepts and experimental design
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely

Responsibilities

• Author original biology questions testing deep conceptual understanding
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and well-defined
• Rate question difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown
• Supply 1-5 academic references per question
• Flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits

Skills

Graduate-level biology

Experimental design

Data interpretation

Scientific writing

Education

PhD in Biology

Doctoral candidate

Master's degree considered

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. All necessary information must be in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduated 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.
• Research publications or laboratory experience in biological sciences is a strong plus.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.