Role OverviewMercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The Medicinal Chemist will design research problems, build data rooms, and validate tasks for AI models in drug research and development.
What You Will Do
Design realistic research problems, build data rooms, write grading documents, validate and calibrate tasks, and revise tasks based on reviewer feedback.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate will 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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