About the role
From AfterQuery’s listing.
Pay: $90/hour
Biologists to build the life science scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment.
AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring biologists as contractors to author and grade the life science scenarios those evaluations run on. This is the anchor listing for our life, physical, and social science domain, and every biology specialty is welcome here.
What you'll actually do
- Author realistic biology scenarios from experimental design through interpretation, the kind a working scientist actually reasons through.
- Write reference answers with the scientific reasoning behind each conclusion, mechanisms and evidence weighed.
- Grade model output for mechanistic accuracy, evidence handling, and appropriate uncertainty.
- Flag explanations that read fluent but get the biology wrong, the misses only a trained scientist would catch.
Who this is for
- Biologists with an advanced degree or equivalent research experience across any specialty, genetics, ecology, microbiology, physiology, evolution, and beyond.
- Researchers, industry scientists, and educators with at least two years of professional experience in the life sciences.
- Scientists who reason from mechanism and evidence, not from textbook summaries.
- People with strong written English who can turn scientific judgment into clear, teachable reasoning.
Contract and pay
- $60 to $120/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
- Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
- Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
- No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
- Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
Who can apply
The listing only says “Remote”. That doesn’t mean worldwide. Check country eligibility on AfterQuery before you spend time on it.
How AfterQuery screens people
- 01Apply to the listing for your field.
- 02Expect a screening task that looks like the real work.
Before you apply
- No real platform charges you to apply or to “unlock” work.
- Apply to two or three platforms, not one. Acceptance is never certain.
- It’s contract work in projects. Hours vary week to week.
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