Mercor
Drug Discovery Scientist
- Pay
- $60–90/hr
- Type
- Hourly
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- Aug 31, 2026
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About this role
About the role This is an evaluation framework for frontier AI models in drug research and development. Domain experts write realistic research problems wrapped around messy evidence worlds. The model works offline in a sandbox with open-source scientific tooling, receiving incomplete, indirect and sometimes misleading data, and must reach a defensible conclusion. The answer is present in the evidence but never stated. Your job is to build a research problem so realistic and well-constructed that the model has to genuinely reason to solve it — it can't pattern-match or look the answer up. What you'll deliver Three things per task: the prompt, the data room, and the grading document. 1. Design the challenge — identify the hidden basin and the forcing chain that makes one conclusion inevitable. 2. Build the world — assemble a data room from real, source-grounded data. Every decisive value…
