Remote Applied Biology Benchmark Specialist

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Applied Biology Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role, offering 10+ hours per week. You will author original biology questions spanning Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Industrial and Synthetic Biology, Medical Research & Drug Discovery, and Agricultural, Environmental & Food Biology.

You will ensure questions are unambiguous and fully self-contained, rate their difficulty, provide correct answers with plausible alternatives, and compile references.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in biology or related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level biology concepts.
• Excellent written English.

Responsibilities

• Author original biology questions to test deep conceptual understanding across pharma, biotech, and related fields.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with necessary information.
• Rate each question's difficulty and provide 1 correct answer with 9 plausible alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• Flag issues with clarity or solvability and justify edits.

Skills

Biology

Molecular biology

Biochemistry

Data interpretation

Experimental design

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Job description

Mercor is seeking an Applied Biology Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role, offering 10+ hours per week. You will author original biology questions spanning Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Industrial and Synthetic Biology, Medical Research & Drug Discovery, and Agricultural, Environmental & Food Biology.

You will ensure questions are unambiguous and fully self-contained, rate their difficulty, provide correct answers with plausible alternatives, and compile references.