Life Sciences Research Expert (Scientific Reasoning / AI Evaluation)

About Gramian Consulting

Gramian Consulting specializes in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. The company is seeking experienced Life Sciences researchers and subject-matter experts for a contract assignment focused on developing advanced scientific reasoning tasks for AI evaluation benchmarks.

The Role: Life Sciences Research Expert

This is a non-coding research role focused on creating rigorous, self-contained scientific problems. These tasks will be based on realistic experiments, biological data, figures, sequences, structures, literature-style evidence, and research scenarios. The objective is to develop tasks that assess an AI system's ability to interpret evidence, reason scientifically, and synthesize information, rather than simply recall facts.

Key Responsibilities

• Design challenging life sciences reasoning problems for AI evaluation.
• Create tasks using realistic experiments, biological datasets, figures, sequences, structures, and scientific evidence.
• Write questions with clear, objectively defensible answers.
• Develop rigorous expert reference answers that explain the required scientific reasoning.
• Ensure tasks test interpretation and synthesis, not simple factual recall.
• Validate biological claims, calculations, assumptions, and conclusions.
• Identify ambiguity, alternative valid interpretations, and poorly constrained questions.
• Build tasks that meaningfully differentiate advanced AI models based on scientific reasoning ability.
• Incorporate reviewer feedback while maintaining high quality and throughput.
• Document tasks clearly and reproducibly where applicable.

Required Qualifications

• PhD, postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced research experience in the Life Sciences.
• Deep expertise in at least one biological discipline, such as Molecular Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Microbiology, Immunology, Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Structural Biology, Biophysics, Developmental Biology, Cancer Biology, or Pharmacology.
• Strong ability to interpret scientific experiments, data, and research findings.
• Strong understanding of experimental design and scientific reasoning.

Contract Details

This is a contract assignment for a duration of 6 weeks. The commitment is hourly, up to 40 hours per week.

Application Process

Candidates will complete an application form, followed by a 60-minute online test. The test will involve analyzing biochemical measurements and distinguishing among mechanistic defects in enzyme variants.