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Life Sciences Research Expert (Python)
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About the Role
Pay: $60–$120/hour Job Type: Contractor (~15 hours per week) Schedule: Flexible—you choose the hours and days you work, including weekends if desired micro1 is seeking experienced life sciences researchers with strong, hands-on Python skills to contribute to projects focused on evaluating and improving advanced AI systems. In this role, you will apply your scientific expertise to create, solve, and review challenging research problems within biology and related fields. You will use Python to analyze scientific data, develop reproducible solutions, validate computational results, and identify errors in technical reasoning or code.
What You'll Do
- Medicine and biomedical science
- Computational biology
- Neuroscience
- Molecular and cellular biology
- Biotechnology and bioinformatics
- Genetics and genomics
- Ecology and evolutionary biology
- Biostatistics or biological data science
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: Python, Biology, Medicine, Materials, Neuroscience, Astronomy
- PhD, MD, or master’s degree with substantial research experience in a relevant life sciences discipline.
- Strong scientific or applied research background demonstrated through publications, thesis work, computational projects, industry research, or equivalent accomplishments.
- Practical Python experience for scientific computing, data analysis, modeling, or simulation.
- Familiarity with tools such as NumPy, pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, Jupyter, or relevant domain-specific libraries.
- Process
- Apply to the role and complete the screening questions.
- Complete an AI interview of approximately 30 minutes.
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