Molecular Biology PhD for AI Training Data Specialist

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Cincinnatus LLC is seeking a Molecular Biology SME to join a GenAI training data effort. You will design nucleic acid constructs and related tasks, review model outputs against expert standards, and help create training data guidelines.

This is a W-2 employment position placed at a leading AI Lab as part of the extended workforce. The role requires an advanced degree in molecular biology or related field, hands-on construct design experience, and a strong publication record.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree, PhD strongly preferred in molecular biology or related life science field.
• Hands-on experience designing nucleic acid constructs (primers, plasmids, vectors) and related cloning strategies.
• Strong peer-reviewed publication record, first-author in Nature/Nature family, Cell, eLife, NAR, PNAS, EMBO Journal.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to identify where model molecular biology reasoning breaks down and address gaps.
• Design hard, domain-relevant tasks and write accurate, well-documented solutions for ground truth across PCR primers, plasmids, gRNA, mRNA constructs, and HDR templates.
• Review tasks and model outputs against expert-quality solutions and provide clear written feedback on correctness and biological reasoning.
• Draft guidelines and rubrics to judge sequence design quality including guide/target selection and codon optimization.

Skills

Molecular biology SME

DNA/RNA design

CRISPR gRNA design

qPCR primers design

Scientific writing

Education

PhD in molecular biology

Tools

Gibson assembly

Golden Gate

Gateway cloning

Codon optimization

Job description

Cincinnatus LLC is seeking a Molecular Biology SME to join a GenAI training data effort. You will design nucleic acid constructs and related tasks, review model outputs against expert standards, and help create training data guidelines.

This is a W-2 employment position placed at a leading AI Lab as part of the extended workforce. The role requires an advanced degree in molecular biology or related field, hands-on construct design experience, and a strong publication record.