Scientific Evals (Part-Time, Contract)

Edison Scientific, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 152,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity (if offered)

Healthcare coverage

Family support stipend

Mental health support

Parental leave

401(k) matching

Wellness stipend

Team events

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Edison Scientific is seeking expert scientists in biology, chemistry or related disciplines to help evaluate AI-driven systems that accelerate scientific discovery. This part-time, 1099 contract role focuses on evaluation and dataset generation.

Annotating outputs, generating tasks, and performing baselining work are core duties. Pay is per deliverable, averaging around $100 per hour; projects vary and may be located internationally.

Qualifications

• PhD in Biology or related field or pursuing one.
• Available to commit 5+ hours per week.
• Interest in AI-driven discovery and accelerating science.

Responsibilities

• Annotating or evaluating outputs from AI systems doing scientific work.
• Generating or reviewing tasks for evaluating AI systems carrying out scientific tasks.
• Completing similar evaluation tasks as human experts for baselining.
• Interacting with Edison’s tools in various capacities.

Skills

Biology expertise

Chemistry expertise

Education

PhD in Biology or related field

Job description

About Us

Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines. We are an ambitious team run by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI.

The Role

In order to help measure and improve our systems ability to accelerate discovery, we work with scientific experts to generate evaluation and training datasets in many areas. We are always looking for expert scientists in biology, chemistry or related disciplines to help us in these efforts.

These activities span various aspects of the research process, including information synthesis, hypothesis generation, and designing and interpreting experiments and data. You likely qualify if you:

• Have a PhD or are pursuing one in Biology or a related scientific field (other advanced degrees considered)

• Can devote 5+ hours per week to working with us.

• Have an interest in driving the acceleration of discovery forward using AI.

Responsibilities

• Annotating or evaluating outputs from AI systems doing scientific work.

• Generating or reviewing tasks for evaluating AI systems carrying out scientific tasks.

• Completing similar evaluation tasks as human experts for baselining.

• Interacting with Edison's tools in various capacities.

Note: This is part-time, 1099 contract work, not a full-time position. Compensation is structured per-deliverable rather than hourly, with rates set to average ~$100/hr. Exact pay varies by project and will be shared when each task is assigned. Potential candidates can be located anywhere, including outside of the U.S.

We bring on experts for projects throughout the year, so this posting stays open on a rolling basis. If there isn't a match right now, we'll keep your profile on file and reach out when a project fits your background.

Please note, our contract work does not offer benefits.

Why join us?

We're a fast-moving, mission-driven culture where smart people do their best work and actually enjoy doing it. We also offer full-time employees the following:

• Competitive salary and equity

• Full healthcare coverage; we pay 100% of premiums for you and your dependents

• Support for growing families, including a yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot

• Mental health support through Rula, our in-network therapist and psychiatrist network with fast availability

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption

• Pet care support with a yearly employer-funded stipend for your animal companions

• Commuter benefits so you can pay for transit and parking with pre-tax dollars

• 401(k) company matching

• $300 health and wellness benefit quarterly

• Lunch is on us every day you're in the office, and dinner is on us when you're working late

• Regular team off-sites and company events

Edison Scientific is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.