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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Access primary sources, including papers and patents, to verify protein target assignments against UniProt records • Flag and classify target assignment errors using a structured taxonomy • Propose correct UniProt accessions where assignments are wrong • Write concise, evidence-grounded notes explaining scientific reasoning • Contribute work that feeds AI drug discovery pipelines • Work on projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• BA/BS with 5+ years, MS with 2+ years, or PhD with industry or drug discovery research experience • Background in pharmacology, biochemistry, molecular biology, or chemical biology • Experience at a biotech, pharma, or CRO • Hands-on binding or functional assay experience, including SPR, TR-FRET, radioligand binding, kinase assays, GPCR functional assays, IC50/Ki/KD • Currently bench-active in a research, scientist, or associate scientist role • Working fluency with UniProt or adjacent workflows, including SAR support, HTS, target validation, biochemical profiling, or IND-enabling studies • U.S. only • Must be unable to require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship; the employer cannot support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates • Nice to have: direct experience with ChEMBL, BindingDB, or PubChem • Nice to have: selectivity profiling or counterscreening experience • Nice to have: familiarity with agonist/antagonist versus activator/inhibitor distinctions

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible schedule / can be completed on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers • Up to $500 referral payment for each successful referral