Senior Life Sciences Researcher for AI-Driven Benchmarking

SaidGig; California City (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

SaidGig is seeking a senior science-focused role to translate practical life sciences expertise into high-quality instructions, reference solutions, and benchmarks. You will work with the client’s AI lab and program management teams to ensure models can reason credibly about real scientific work, not just generate plausible-sounding answers.

The role emphasizes rigorous instruction design, golden solutions, and evaluation standards within a hybrid Bay Area setting.

Qualifications

• PhD in life sciences field required.
• At least 4 years of substantive research experience at a recognized institution.
• Senior-level progression with ownership of research direction.
• Peer-reviewed publication record preferred.
• Hands-on use of large language models in professional work.

Responsibilities

• Review life sciences knowledge-work tasks and model outputs for missing behaviors and weak reasoning.
• Write detailed instruction specifications and golden solutions for life sciences problems.
• Create new tasks reflecting how life sciences research is conducted in practice.
• Design evaluation sets and help develop domain-specific skills and tools.
• Calibrate standards with client researchers and translate expert judgment into explicit criteria.

Skills

LLM proficiency

Written communication

Peer-reviewed publications

Education

PhD in life sciences

Job description

SaidGig is seeking a senior science-focused role to translate practical life sciences expertise into high-quality instructions, reference solutions, and benchmarks. You will work with the client’s AI lab and program management teams to ensure models can reason credibly about real scientific work, not just generate plausible-sounding answers.

The role emphasizes rigorous instruction design, golden solutions, and evaluation standards within a hybrid Bay Area setting.