PhD Biology AI Benchmark Designer - Remote

OpenTrain AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 109,000 - 182,000; Part time

Job summary

OpenTrain AI, Inc. seeks a remote contractor with deep biology and life sciences research experience to craft challenging problems for AI training and evaluation.

You will critique model outputs, provide expert-level written feedback, and contribute to benchmarks and datasets. The role focuses on translating real lab workflows into AI-ready tasks while ensuring rigorous scientific reasoning and adaptability to changing priorities.

Qualifications

• PhD in biology or related life sciences field.
• Hands-on research experience, ideally with peer-reviewed publications.
• Advanced knowledge of biology or life sciences domains.

Responsibilities

• Design difficult biology and life sciences problems for AI training and benchmarking.
• Review AI model and agent outputs for accuracy, scientific rigor, and reasoning quality.
• Provide clear, structured written feedback explaining errors and gaps in reasoning.
• Build and refine benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation tasks.
• Translate real research or lab workflows into AI training and testing tasks.
• Adapt work as research priorities and project scope evolve.

Skills

Scientific problem design

Critical evaluation

Technical writing

Benchmark development

Biology knowledge

Education

PhD in biology or related life sciences

Tools

Python

R

Command-line tools

Job description

OpenTrain AI, Inc. seeks a remote contractor with deep biology and life sciences research experience to craft challenging problems for AI training and evaluation.

You will critique model outputs, provide expert-level written feedback, and contribute to benchmarks and datasets. The role focuses on translating real lab workflows into AI-ready tasks while ensuring rigorous scientific reasoning and adaptability to changing priorities.