Life Sciences Research Assistant

AuraOne, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

AuraOne, Inc. is seeking a Life Sciences Research Assistant to remotely review AI outputs across life sciences workflows. You will reproduce calculations, evaluate reasoning, and document correct methods to support model training.

This is a contractor role with flexible hours and async work, primarily US-eligible remote work. Responsibilities include grading model outputs, reproducing derivations, and adjudicating disputed answers using scholarly standards.

Qualifications

• Graduate-level training or equivalent experience in life sciences research review
• Hands-on experience publishing, teaching, or advising on the topic at a professional level
• Ability to apply multi-page rubrics consistently across long batches
• Clear written reasoning citing methods, papers, or worked examples
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Review AI outputs against life sciences research review methods and prior work
• Reproduce or sanity-check key derivations, calculations, or experimental claims
• Flag dimensional, methodological, and citation errors with structured severity tags
• Capture the corrected reasoning or worked example for training
• Adjudicate disputed answers using textbooks, papers, or community standards
• Maintain reviewer-quality scores in inter-rater calibration cycles

Skills

Scientific reasoning

Method validation

Citation review

Quantitative analysis

Lifesci review

Education

Graduate-level training in life sciences research review

Experience publishing/teaching/advising

Job description

Life Sciences Research Assistant is a remote review track for evaluating AI outputs across life sciences research assistant research review reasoning, calculations, and research workflows. Reviewers grade derivations and assumptions, reproduce key results, and document the correct method so the modeling team can train on it.

Why this role matters

Life Sciences Research Assistant research review models live or die on whether their derivations actually hold up under scrutiny. AuraOne uses scientific specialists to grade outputs the way a peer reviewer would - checking assumptions, reproducing key steps, and capturing the right method alongside the wrong one.

Responsibilities

• Review AI outputs against current life sciences research assistant research review methods, conventions, and prior work for Life Sciences Research Assistant assignments.
• Reproduce or sanity-check key derivations, calculations, or experimental claims.
• Flag dimensional, methodological, and citation errors with structured severity tags.
• Capture the corrected reasoning or worked example so the modeling team can train on it.
• Adjudicate disputed answers against textbooks, papers, or community standards.
• Maintain reviewer-quality scores in inter-rater calibration cycles.

Qualifications

• Graduate-level training or equivalent applied experience in life sciences research assistant research review or a closely related field for Life Sciences Research Assistant work.
• Hands-on experience publishing, teaching, or advising on the topic at a professional level.
• Comfort applying multi-page rubrics consistently across long batches.
• Clear written reasoning that cites methods, papers, or worked examples.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.

Example tasks

• Reproduce a life sciences research assistant research review derivation from a model output and flag any algebraic or dimensional errors.
• Grade a model's literature summary against the cited papers and rate the citation quality.
• Adjudicate a disputed answer between two reviewers using textbook methods.
• Audit a 25-row batch for rubric consistency and report drift to the program lead.

Nice to have

• PhD, postdoc, or industry research experience in the topic area.
• Prior work reviewing AI-assisted research tooling and its failure modes.
• Multilingual fluency for non-English papers and corpora.

Skills

• Scientific reasoning
• Method validation
• Citation review
• Quantitative analysis
• Life Sciences Research Assistant research review

Work model

Remote - US-eligible. Remote · Independent specialist contractor. Employment type: CONTRACTOR. Applicants must be authorized to work from US.

Compensation

Hourly rate confirmed after the interview process.

Graduate-level training or equivalent applied experience in life sciences research assistant research review or a closely related field for Life Sciences Research Assistant work. Hands-on experience publishing, teaching, or advising on the topic at a professional level. Comfort applying multi-page rubrics consistently across long batches. Clear written reasoning that cites methods, papers, or worked examples. Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.