Drug Discovery Scientist

🔥 21 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $90 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 9%

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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

• Design realistic research problems for frontier AI models in drug research and development • Create prompts, data rooms, and grading documents for each task • Identify hidden basins and forcing chains that make conclusions defensible • Assemble data rooms from real, source-grounded evidence • Ensure every decisive value traces to a real source • Write grading documents that assess submitted memos on substance • Run verification and calibration before submission • Revise work when reviewers request changes • Serve as final authority on scientific and difficulty questions for assigned tasks

🎯 Requirements

• Working expertise in mechanistic enzymology, structure-guided peptide or antibody design, fragment-based discovery, or structure-based medicinal chemistry • PhD or equivalent industry track record • Ability to design realistic, rigorous research problems that require genuine reasoning • Ability to defend conclusions rigorously • Comfortable judging reasoning quality, not just final answers • Commitment of at least 20 hours per week, up to 40 hours • Comfortable working in a browser-based studio and Claude Code • Claude Max subscription required • Must work as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates cannot be supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Claude Max subscription fully reimbursed • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Flexible schedule • Fully remote work • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Collaboration with leading researchers • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral bonus of up to $360 per successful referral (subject to limits)