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Biology PhD - Assessment Specialist - AI Trainer

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95199, USA
Listing for: Mercor
Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-08-16
Job specializations:
  • Research/Development
    Biology
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 41000 - 83000 USD Yearly USD 41000.00 83000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Role Overview

We are seeking expert biologists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core biology domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types:

  • Question Authoring — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of biology expertise, rate their difficulty, and submit them for review.
  • Question Verification — Review pre-written questions for accuracy, clarity, and rigor. Edit where needed, rate difficulty, and document any changes made.
Biology Domains Covered

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Industrial and Synthetic Biology, Medical Research & Drug Discovery, Agricultural, Environmental & Food Biology.

Key Responsibilities
  • Author original biology questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall
  • Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all necessary information must be in the problem statement
  • Rate each question's difficulty:
    Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above)
  • Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers
  • Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise intermediate steps in markdown format
  • Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources (peer-reviewed journals, university repositories)
  • For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made
Ideal Qualifications
  • PhD or doctoral candidate in Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, or a closely related field
  • Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain
  • Strong command of graduate-level biological concepts, experimental design, and data interpretation
  • Research publications or laboratory experience in biological sciences is a strong plus
  • Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely
More About the Opportunity
  • Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week
  • Asynchronous, fully remote work
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