Remote Life Sciences SME – Biology (Contractor)

Benture; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Turing, based in San Francisco, seeks Life Sciences Subject Matter Expert–Biology for a 1-month remote contractor engagement to design advanced reasoning tasks for LifeSciBench. You will craft problems grounded in realistic biological scenarios and provide defensible, expert reference answers.

Ideal candidates hold a Ph.D. or equivalent research background in Life Sciences, with deep expertise in at least one discipline and the ability to interpret experimental data and research findings.

Qualifications

• Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced research experience in the Life Sciences.
• Strong expertise in at least one biological discipline, such as Molecular Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Cell Biology, Biochemistry; Neuroscience, Microbiology, Immunology, Evolutionary Biology; Ecology, Structural Biology, Biophysics, Developmental Biology; Cancer Biology, Pharmacology, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret scientific experiments, data, and research findings.

Responsibilities

• Design novel, challenging life sciences problems that require advanced scientific reasoning.
• Create tasks grounded in realistic research scenarios, experiments, biological datasets, figures, sequences, structures, and scientific evidence.
• Develop clear questions with well-defined, objectively defensible answers.
• Write rigorous expert reference answers explaining the scientific reasoning required.
• Ensure tasks emphasize synthesis and interpretation over simple factual recall.
• Validate all biological claims, calculations, assumptions, and conclusions.
• Identify ambiguity, alternative valid interpretations, and insufficiently constrained questions.
• Create tasks capable of distinguishing frontier AI models based on scientific reasoning ability.
• Maintain high quality and throughput while incorporating reviewer feedback.

Education

Ph.D./Postdoctoral experience or equivalent advanced research experience in Life Sciences

Job description

Turing, based in San Francisco, seeks Life Sciences Subject Matter Expert–Biology for a 1-month remote contractor engagement to design advanced reasoning tasks for LifeSciBench. You will craft problems grounded in realistic biological scenarios and provide defensible, expert reference answers.

Ideal candidates hold a Ph.D. or equivalent research background in Life Sciences, with deep expertise in at least one discipline and the ability to interpret experimental data and research findings.