Medical Safety Expert - DSUR Author

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Medical Safety Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $140–$190/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20–25 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Generate and validate the safety layer of clinical data rooms, including adverse event data, SAE records, patient narratives, discontinuations, and protocol deviations.
• Author full DSURs and PBRERs and their component sections, designing prompts, golden outputs, and rubrics to quantify AI agent capabilities.
• Interpret active benefit-risk against cumulative safety data, exposure estimates, and signal detection output.
• Conduct full fatal-case workups, including investigator versus sponsor causality.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5+ years of experience required; 10–25 years preferred.
• MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent.
• Experience authoring aggregate safety reports across both pre-commercial (DSUR) and post-commercial (PBRER) reporting.
• Comfortable with active benefit-risk interpretation and full fatal-case workups.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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