Drug Discovery Scientist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $90 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 11%

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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 inevitable • Assemble data rooms from real, source-grounded data • Ensure every decisive value traces to a real source • Write grading documents that evaluate submitted memos on substance rather than style or method • Run verification and calibration before submission • Revise work when reviewers request changes • Serve as the final authority on scientific and difficulty questions for assigned tasks • Work with browser-based studio and Claude Code • Collaborate with leading researchers on AI training projects

🎯 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 drug research and development problems • Ability to defend scientific conclusions rigorously • Comfortable judging reasoning quality, not just final answers • Commitment of at least 20 hours per week, up to 40 hours • Comfortable using a browser-based studio and Claude Code • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Claude Max subscription fully reimbursed • Payments weekly on Stripe or Wise • Fully remote work • Flexible schedule; work on your own schedule • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral earnings up to $360 per successful referral