Remote Drug Discovery Scientist – AI Research Evaluation

Synthires; California; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

20 hours/week minimum

Up to 40 hours/week

Claude Max subscription reimbursed

Job summary

Synthires is seeking experienced Drug Discovery Scientists to contribute to an advanced AI research and evaluation project focused on pharmaceutical R&D. You will design realistic, evidence-driven drug discovery problems that require AI models to reason through incomplete and potentially misleading evidence.

You will create research prompts, build data rooms from real sources, develop grading rubrics, and validate tasks.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong scientific writing and documentation skills.
• Comfortable working independently in a remote research environment.
• Ability to commit at least 20 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Design challenging, realistic drug discovery research problems based on authentic scientific workflows.
• Develop research scenarios where the correct conclusion must be derived from multiple pieces of evidence rather than directly stated.
• Build comprehensive data rooms using real, source-grounded scientific data and documentation.
• Ensure every decisive scientific value and piece of evidence can be traced back to a reliable source.
• Create detailed grading documents and evaluation rubrics that assess scientific reasoning and substantive conclusions.
• Evaluate AI-generated research outputs for scientific accuracy, logical consistency, and defensibility.
• Run verification and calibration processes to ensure tasks are reproducible, appropriately difficult, and objectively scorable.
• Identify weaknesses in task design, evidence, or evaluation criteria and revise them accordingly.
• Provide expert judgment on scientific questions, task difficulty, and the quality of AI reasoning.
• Collaborate with project reviewers and other domain experts to refine research tasks.

Education

PhD or equivalent industry experience

Job description

Synthires is seeking experienced Drug Discovery Scientists to contribute to an advanced AI research and evaluation project focused on pharmaceutical R&D. You will design realistic, evidence-driven drug discovery problems that require AI models to reason through incomplete and potentially misleading evidence.

You will create research prompts, build data rooms from real sources, develop grading rubrics, and validate tasks.