Scientific Evals (Part-Time, Contract)
About The Position
Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines. We are an ambitious team run by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI. In order to help measure and improve our systems ability to accelerate discovery, we work with scientific experts to generate evaluation and training datasets in many areas. We are always looking for expert scientists in biology, chemistry or related disciplines to help us in these efforts. These activities span various aspects of the research process, including information synthesis, hypothesis generation, and designing and interpreting experiments and data.
Requirements
- Have a PhD or are pursuing one in Biology or a related scientific field (other advanced degrees considered)
- Can devote 5+ hours per week to working with us.
- Have an interest in driving the acceleration of discovery forward using AI.
Responsibilities
- Annotating or evaluating outputs from AI systems doing scientific work.
- Generating or reviewing tasks for evaluating AI systems carrying out scientific tasks.
- Completing similar evaluation tasks as human experts for baselining.
- Interacting with Edison’s tools in various capacities.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Full healthcare coverage; we pay 100% of premiums for you and your dependents
- Support for growing families, including a yearly new parent stipend and fertility coverage through Carrot
- Mental health support through Rula, our in-network therapist and psychiatrist network with fast availability
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption
- Pet care support with a yearly employer-funded stipend for your animal companions
- Commuter benefits so you can pay for transit and parking with pre-tax dollars
- 401(k) company matching
- $300 health and wellness benefit quarterly
- Lunch is on us every day you're in the office, and dinner is on us when you're working late
- Regular team off-sites and company events
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
