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Your task and your solution become the ground truth a model is scored against, so accuracy is the entire job.\n\nAdvantages of contracting with us:\n\nYou will be able to choose which projects you want to work on and when.\nYou work on your own schedule, on your own computer, from the comfort of your own home.\nProjects are paid hourly up to $40-$125 USD per hour, with bonuses on high-quality work.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nDesign complex biology tasks in your area of expertise.\nDefine what a correct answer looks like and the standard a model has to meet.\nTest and validate the task yourself before you submit it.\nWrite a step-by-step solution another researcher could reproduce.\nDesign tasks a model cannot solve by replaying a known answer, and flag where its biological reasoning breaks: missing controls, misread data, incorrect mechanisms, unsupported conclusions.\nWork across computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, systems biology, and quantitative biological workflows.\n\nQualifications:\n\nFluency in English (native or bilingual level).\nAn active research background in biology or a related life science: advanced graduate student, postdoc, academic researcher, or industry practitioner.\nStrong coding skills. You write Python and work comfortably at a terminal as part of your research, not as a side interest.\nFamiliarity with reproducible or containerized environments such as Docker is a plus.\n\nNote: Payment is made via PayPal. We will never ask for any money from you. PayPal will handle any currency conversions from USD. Only applicants in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States will be considered for this role. 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