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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.
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Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.