
Molecular Biology Expert
Listing checked October 29, 2026 · pay as published by AfterQuery
Key details
- Pay
- $90/hr
- Location
- Remote
- Job type
- contract
- Posted
- August 27, 2026
Overview
AfterQuery assembles the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs rely on to measure what their models can and cannot do in real professional work. As a biochemistry and molecular biology contractor here, you build the mechanism-level life science scenarios those evaluations run on, spanning assay design through data interpretation. Contributors are practicing scientists rather than annotators, and the job judges you on scientific judgment instead of output volume. Everything runs remote and async, with no screen recording, keystroke monitoring or idle timers, and a 10-hour weekly floor with no ceiling.
What You'll Do7
- Compose realistic molecular biology scenarios that carry a working scientist from assay design through to reading the resulting data.
- Draft reference answers that lay out the mechanistic reasoning behind each conclusion, including which pathways and evidence you weighed.
- Score model responses on pathway accuracy, experimental logic and whether the stated uncertainty fits the evidence.
- Call out explanations that sound polished but get the biochemistry wrong, the errors only a trained scientist notices.
- Turn your own scientific judgment into written reasoning clear enough for another expert to follow and learn from.
- Keep your scenarios and grading anchored in mechanism and data rather than textbook summaries.
- Take on live project work in your specialty once matched, scaling hours up or down from week to week.
Requirements6
- Advanced degree in biochemistry, molecular biology or a closely related field.
- Two or more years of research or industry experience in the molecular life sciences.
- Hands-on depth in techniques such as cloning, protein work, sequencing or assay design.
- Strong written English, enough to document scientific reasoning so another expert can follow it.
- Availability for at least 10 hours per week, with no upper limit.
- A habit of reasoning from mechanism and data instead of reciting summaries.
Who Should Apply
Bench and industry scientists with an advanced degree or comparable research background who can explain molecular mechanisms in clean written English. If cloning, protein work, sequencing or assay development sits in your hands-on history, this work matches your specialty.
Salary Insight
The listing quotes $90.00/hr, while the program's stated band runs $60 to $120/hr and your exact rate follows your experience rather than a post-start negotiation. Pay goes out weekly through Stripe, and the wide band means a PhD with publications or biotech and pharma research on the record typically lands toward the upper end.
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