Pharmacovigilance Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $190/hr

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 275,000 - 373,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Medical Safety Expert for a remote contract role. You will generate and validate the safety layer of clinical data rooms and author DSURs and PBRERs, designing prompts and rubrics to quantify AI agent capabilities.

Responsibilities include interpreting benefit-risk against safety data, conducting fatal-case workups, and working independently to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance. Requires MD/PhD/PharmD or equivalent with 5+ years in medical safety.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in medical safety or pharmacovigilance; 10–25 years preferred.
• MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent required.
• Experience authoring DSUR and PBRER for pre- and post-commercial reporting.
• Able to interpret benefit-risk and perform full fatal-case workups.

Responsibilities

• Generate and validate the safety layer of clinical data rooms, including adverse event data and SAE records.
• Author DSURs and PBRERs, designing prompts and rubrics to quantify AI capabilities.
• Interpret benefit-risk against safety data, exposure estimates, and signal outputs.
• Conduct full fatal-case workups, handling investigator vs sponsor causality.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Skills

Safety data analysis

Clinical data interpretation

Independent work

Timeline management

Education

MD/PhD/PharmD or equivalent

Job description

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: Medical Safety Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $140–$190/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 20–25 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Generate and validate the safety layer of clinical data rooms, including adverse event data, SAE records, patient narratives, discontinuations, and protocol deviations.
• Author full DSURs and PBRERs and their component sections, designing prompts, golden outputs, and rubrics to quantify AI agent capabilities.
• Interpret active benefit-risk against cumulative safety data, exposure estimates, and signal detection output.
• Conduct full fatal-case workups, including investigator versus sponsor causality.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 5+ years of experience required; 10–25 years preferred.
• MD , PharmD , PhD , or equivalent.
• Experience authoring aggregate safety reports across both pre-commercial ( DSUR ) and post-commercial ( PBRER ) reporting.
• Comfortable with active benefit-risk interpretation and full fatal-case workups.

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