Senior Life Sciences Analyst, AI Model Training

Norstella; Helena (MT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Health savings accounts / flexible-spD

Dental plans

Vision benefits

401k retirement plan

Short- and Long-Term Disability

Education benefits

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Norstella is seeking a Senior Life Sciences Analyst for AI Model Training. Remote, United States.

This role sits at the intersection of clinical science and applied AI development, collaborating with data scientists, ML engineers, and data engineers to calibrate models and deliver predictive insights. Responsibilities include evaluating outputs, defining rubrics and quality criteria, and guiding client-facing implementation.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in life sciences, medical sciences, CS or equivalent.
• 3+ years in production-grade life science datasets, including AI-enabled apps.
• Experience with structured publishing platforms and data tools.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate model outputs across clinical, regulatory, and life sciences tasks.
• Define evaluation rubrics, preference dimensions, and quality criteria.

Skills

Clinical & life sciences

Data analytics

AI-enabled datasets

Automation concepts

Statistical analysis

Independent work

Cross-functional communication

Education

Graduate degree in life sciences / computer science

Tools

Structured publishing platforms

Data tools

Job description

Senior Life Sciences Analyst, AI Model Training

Company: Norstella

Location: Remote, United States

Date Posted: Aug 5, 2026

Employment Type: Full Time

Job ID: R-2073

Job Description

About us

Why Norstella? Norstella unites market-leading companies that all have a shared goal of improving patient access. Each organization (Evaluate, Citeline, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making.

Together, we help our clients:

• Assess the market need and competitive landscape
• Know precisely which drugs to prioritize in their portfolios
• Find out where the launch difficulties will be - before they're difficulties
• Track and improve market access post-launch

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning-driven predictive analytics. At Norstella, we don't just deliver information and insights. We deliver answers you can act on.

About the role

As a Senior Life Sciences Analyst for Model Training at Norstella, you will sit at the intersection of deep clinical and scientific domain expertise and applied AI development. This role will be embedded within a group of life science thought leaders, but will interface across cross-functional teams of data scientists, machine learning engineers and data engineers. Your work centers on the preference and judgment layer of model development - through scoring and ranking outputs, you will calibrate models on dimensions of quality, accuracy and clinical reasoning such that they are able to handshake with persona use cases. Your judgment becomes the signal that bridges a capable model and a genuinely useful one, and will play a critical role in our efforts to deliver predictive analytics and insights across clients.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate model outputs across clinical, regulatory, and life sciences tasks by rating individual responses, ranking pairs and lists, and rewriting outputs to demonstrate the preferred response.
• Define and maintain evaluation rubrics, preference dimensions, and quality criteria (factual accuracy, clinical reasoning quality, etc) that govern model outputs and preference alignment.
• Act as an expert-in-the-loop for how life science models are commercialized with clients, including ongoing support for implementation.
• Advise and assist with interpretation of model behavior, bridging the desired behavior back to the dataflow inflection point, working with the relevant teams to adjust as needed.
• Partner with data scientists and MLEs to walk feedback into data collection pipelines.
• Conduct red-team and adversarial evaluation of models, surfacing subtle failure modes - hallucinations, citation errors, unsupported clinical claims, regulatory missteps - that automated metrics cannot reliably catch.
• Analyze preference data and model behavior to identify systematic gaps, then partner with the fine-tuning SMEs and the data science team to decide how each gap is addressed through preference data.
• Conduct new proofs of concept for novel domain capabilities.
• Contribute to Norstella's knowledge graph and taxonomy work and help design new agentic workflows based on domain-grounded language models.

Qualifications: The skills you bring to the table

• Graduate degree in life sciences, medical sciences, computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in production-grade life science datasets, including with AI-enabled applications.
• Experience working with structured publishing platforms and data tools; comfort with automation concepts
• Experience working with and statistically analysing large and complex data sets, including data cleaning and preprocessing.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills, especially between technical and non-technical teams.

Bonus points if you have experience in

• Experience working with Generative AI, especially LLMs, including agents, throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience creating MCPs and consuming them into Agentic workflows.
• Experience in fast-paced, novel product development.

Travel: None required

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug benefits
• Health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts
• Dental plans and vision benefits
• Basic life and AD&D Benefits
• 401k retirement plan
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Education benefits
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off

The guiding principles for success at Norstella

• 01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First
• 02: Integrity, Truth, Reality
• 03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace
• 04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance
• 05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning

Norstella is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our ethos is to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in their personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success. We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual’s abilities, skills, performance and behavior and our business requirements. Norstella operates a zero-tolerance policy to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment.

Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.