Drug Discovery Scientist

🕒 September 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60 - $90 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 17%

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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 • Identify the hidden basin and forcing chain that make one conclusion inevitable • Assemble a source-grounded data room from real data, ensuring 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 tasks 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 pose rigorous, defensible research problems that cannot be shortcut by pattern matching or lookup • Comfortable judging reasoning quality, not just final answers • Commitment of at least 20 hours per week, up to 40 hours • Must use a browser-based studio plus Claude Code • Claude Max subscription required • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates

🏖️ Benefits

• Claude Max subscription required and fully reimbursed • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Flexible schedule; work can be completed on your own schedule • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers • Referral payments of up to $360 per successful referral, with no stated limit on referrals (restrictions may apply)