Mercor
Preclinical R&D Expert – In-house Drug Development
- Pay
- $60–100/hr
- Type
- Hourly
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- Aug 15, 2026
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About this role
Mercor is partnering with a venture-backed AI lab building frontier AI platforms and physics-based foundation models for chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery. They're extending their platform into new areas of pharmaceutical development and are looking for hands-on preclinical R&D experts across drug modalities to help guide what they build. Are you a preclinical R&D scientist who has taken drug programs from the bench toward the clinic — and curious how AI is reshaping drug discovery? This is a hands-on role that blends your wet-lab and translational experience with a growing understanding of how scientific data trains the next generation of AI models. In this role, you'll: Review technical materials and real-world R&D data in your area of expertise Label, classify, and annotate scientific data and model outputs to improve model performance Provide expert perspective on key…
