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Preclinical R&D Expert – ADC & Bispecifics
Remote (Global)
$60 – $100/hr
August 12, 2026
Job description
Mercor is partnering with a venture-backed AI lab building frontier AI platforms and physics-based foundation models for chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery. They're extending their platform into new areas of pharmaceutical development and are looking for hands-on ADC and/or bispecific experts to help guide what they build.
Are you a preclinical R&D scientist who has taken drug programs from the bench toward the clinic — and curious how AI is reshaping drug discovery? This is a hands-on role that blends your wet-lab and translational experience with a growing understanding of how scientific data trains the next generation of AI models.
In this role, you'll:
Review technical materials and real-world R&D data across ADC and/or bispecific programs
Label, classify, and annotate scientific data and model outputs to improve model performance
Provide expert perspective on key scientific and development decisions (target/modality selection, optimization, trade-offs, risk)
Help define structure and quality standards for the client's dataset pipeline
Participate in expert discussions, interviews, and research engagements
You're a strong fit if you:
Have hands-on, non-administrative preclinical R&D experience at a company that develops its own drug assets in-house and has taken programs to the clinic — Must Have
Have direct experience with ADCs and/or bispecific (or multispecific) antibodies — Must Have
Work in a core R&D function: discovery biology, medicinal chemistry, protein/antibody engineering, computational, in vivo/translational, pharmacology/PK-PD, toxicology, or CMC/formulation — Must Have
Have 5+ years of relevant industry R&D experience (flexible based on depth)
Have taken a program through lead optimization or IND-enabling/preclinical development (nice to have)
Have experience at mid-sized, emerging, or resource-constrained biotech — ideally currently outside the top-20 pharmaceutical companies (nice to have)
This is a hands-on preclinical R&D role — likely not the right fit if your work is mainly CRO/CDMO services, academic-only, QC/analytical-only, clinical-development-only, diagnostics, or regulatory/medical-writing.
Your work will directly feed into the models reshaping how medicines are discovered, helping intelligent systems reason about real-world pharmaceutical R&D.
Here are more details about the role:
You will interface directly with the client team.
This is an ongoing, part-time engagement of roughly 10 hours per week.
Seniority welcome from individual contributor through Director.
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