Drug Discovery Scientist - PhD

Mercor
New York, NY
Job Description
Role Overview

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The Drug Discovery Scientist will design realistic research problems for AI models in drug research and development.

What You Will Do

Design problems, build a data room, write a grading document, validate and calibrate tasks, revise tasks based on reviewer feedback.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Must have expertise in mechanistic enzymology, structure-guided peptide or antibody design, fragment-based discovery, or structure-based medicinal chemistry, and a PhD or equivalent industry track record.

Requirements

  • 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 defensible problems that require genuine reasoning
  • Comfortable judging reasoning quality, not just final answers
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