Job Description
About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: Pharmaceutical Research Expert Type: Contract Compensation: $1,150–$1,450 per completed task Location: Remote Role Responsibilities Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use day-to-day. Include study protocols, investigator brochures, IND/NDA drafts , pharmacology reports, biomarker analyses, CMC technical reports , and email threads. Represent platforms like Medidata Rave , Oracle Clinical One , Schrödinger Suite , and Benchling . Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigating multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to meaningfully challenge frontier AI agents . Collaborate with other pharmaceutical-research experts to design the environment, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor. Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for pharma-research agent benchmarks. Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. The work you produce directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems . Qualifications Must-Have PhD , MD , PharmD , or MS with deep experience; industry fellowship training a plus. 3+ years of full-time experience at a Fortune 500 pharma/biotech or top academic research center. Background in areas such as target ID/drug discovery, preclinical/translational research, clinical development, regulatory affairs, or real-world evidence. Day-to-day use of Medidata Rave , Oracle Clinical One , Schrödinger Suite , and Benchling . Strong analytical thinking and writing skills. Compensation & Legal Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality (~ $1,150–$1,450 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves). Performance Bonus:
