[Hiring] Drug Discovery Specialist @Mercor

Role Description

As a Pharmaceutical Research Expert, you will:

• Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily, including study protocols, investigator brochures, IND/NDA drafts, pharmacology reports, biomarker analyses, CMC technical reports, DMC briefing documents, and email threads.
• Represent platforms like Medidata Rave, Oracle Clinical One, Schrödinger Suite, Benchling, and LabArchives.
• Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows, requiring navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents meaningfully.
• 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, directly informing 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 one or more 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, MOE (CCG), and Benchling/LabArchives.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills; able to translate pharma R&D workflows into structured task specs.

Requirements

• Competitive task completion pay based on task quality (~$1,150–$1,450 per completed task, subject to change as the project evolves).
• Performance bonus for top performers receiving a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate.
• Hourly opportunity for top performers to transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.

Application Process

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
• Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.