About this role
Apply hands-on preclinical drug development experience to help shape AI models for chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery. This remote opportunity combines wet-lab and translational expertise with scientific data review, enabling intelligent systems to reason about real-world pharmaceutical R&D.
Key Responsibilities- Review technical materials and real-world R&D data within your area of expertise.
- Label, classify, and annotate scientific data and model outputs to improve model performance.
- Provide expert input on scientific and development decisions, including target and modality selection, optimization, trade-offs, and risk.
- Help establish structure and quality standards for the dataset pipeline.
- Participate in expert discussions, interviews, and research engagements.
- Work directly with the client team.
- Hands-on, non-administrative preclinical R&D experience at a company developing its own drug assets in-house, with programs advanced to the clinic.
- Experience in a core R&D function, such as discovery biology, medicinal chemistry, protein or antibody engineering, computational R&D, in vivo or translational research, pharmacology or PK-PD, toxicology, or CMC or formulation.
- Hands-on experience with one or more drug modalities, including small molecules, monoclonal antibodies, peptides, ADCs, bispecifics, mRNA, siRNA, ASOs, PROTACs, molecular glues, cell therapies, gene therapies, or radioligand therapies.
- At least 5 years of relevant industry R&D experience, with flexibility based on depth of experience.
- Experience taking a program through lead optimization or IND-enabling or preclinical development is preferred.
- Experience at a mid-sized, emerging, or resource-constrained biotech is preferred, ideally while currently outside the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.
- Individual contributors through Directors are welcome.
This role is intended for hands-on preclinical R&D professionals. It is unlikely to be a fit for candidates whose experience is primarily in CRO or CDMO services, academia only, QC or analytical work only, clinical development only, diagnostics, or regulatory or medical writing.
Work Terms- Remote, hourly engagement.
- Ongoing, part-time commitment of approximately 10 hours per week.
$60 to $100 per hour.