About this opportunity
Confidential lists this Preclinical R&D Scientist for AI Model Training opportunity in Newell, North Carolina. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Role Overview
Apply hands-on preclinical drug development expertise to help improve AI models for chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery. This role combines wet-lab and translational R&D experience with scientific data review, helping intelligent systems reason about real-world pharmaceutical development decisions.
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.
Advise on scientific and development decisions, including target and modality selection, optimization, tradeoffs, and risk.
Help establish structure and quality standards for a scientific dataset pipeline.
Participate in expert discussions, interviews, and research engagements.
Work directly with the client team.
Qualifications
Hands-on, non-administrative preclinical R&D experience at a company that develops its own drug assets in house and has advanced programs 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 expertise.
Experience advancing 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 with current experience outside the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.
Suitable seniority ranges from individual contributor through Director.
Role Fit
This role is intended for hands-on preclinical R&D professionals. It is generally not a fit for candidates whose work is primarily CRO or CDMO services, academic-only research, QC or analytical work, clinical development only, diagnostics, or regulatory or medical writing.
Work Terms
Remote, hourly engagement.
Part-time commitment of roughly 10 hours per week.
Compensation
$60 to $100 per hour.
Who can apply
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