Metagenomics Specialist - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation; Connecticut; Remote; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

Remote projects

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking biologists to craft prompts that probe molecular mechanisms, experimental design, and data interpretation. You will review AI outputs for fabrication, overstated claims, and misread experiments, rating the reasoning accordingly.

Successful contributors write correct answers grounded in actual literature, with clear written English. This is remote, flexible work paid by the hour, with earnings scaling by task difficulty and specialization.

Qualifications

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

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

Prompt writing

AI review

Scientific writing

Education

Graduate biology background

Job description

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.

As a Biologist you'll hold AI biological reasoning to the standard of the literature and write answers that get the science right.

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.

How it works

Apply

Qualify

Work & get paid

Compensation

Up to $40 – $125+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $10k–$100k+ a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 100k+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. $150M+ paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.