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You’ll design realistic analysis tasks from your own practice, run them through frontier AI systems, and grade what comes back against a professional standard.</p><p>The models can talk fluently about biological data analysis. What they can’t yet do reliably is the real work: QC an RNA-seq count matrix, prioritize variants, diagnose a batch effect, or audit a pipeline. Your judgment of when a result is real becomes the benchmark those models are measured against.</p></section><section class="rd-section"><h2>What you’ll actually do</h2><ul><li><b>Design realistic analysis tasks</b> from your own workflows: the scenario, the prompt, and the files an agent would need (count matrices, sample sheets and metadata, VCFs, pipeline logs and QC output, analysis notebooks).</li><li><b>Run tasks through frontier AI agents</b> and grade the deliverable (an analysis report, annotated table, figure set, or notebook) against the standard you’d hold a colleague to.</li><li><b>Write clear grading rubrics</b> (the right normalization, the right multiple-testing correction, the right biological reading) and explain why a response passes or fails.</li><li><b>Flag concrete failures with evidence:</b> batch effects and confounders ignored, wrong statistical test or uncorrected p-values, misused reference version, silently dropped samples, or code that doesn’t do what the narrative claims.</li></ul><p><b>Problems draw on whatever you know best:</b></p><ul><li><b>Genomics and variant interpretation.</b></li><li><b>Bulk and single-cell transcriptomics.</b></li><li><b>Proteomics, metabolomics, and multiomics integration.</b></li><li><b>Population and statistical genetics.</b></li><li><b>Machine learning applied to biology.</b></li></ul></section><section class="rd-section"><h2>Roles this fits</h2><p>Common backgrounds: Bioinformatics Scientist, Genomics Data Scientist, Computational Biologist.</p></section><section class="rd-section"><h2>What we look for</h2><ul><li>3+ years hands-on analyzing real biological data in industry, an academic lab, or a research institute (counted after undergraduate study).</li><li>You write, debug, and can explain your own analysis code in Python and/or R (at least one required, both preferred).</li><li>Depth in at least one of: genomics and variant interpretation; bulk or single-cell transcriptomics; proteomics / metabolomics / multiomics; population and statistical genetics; ML applied to biology; clinical genomics; metagenomics or phylogenetics.</li><li>You’ve owned a multistep analysis end to end, from raw or messy data to final interpretation, and can judge whether a result is real (normalization, batch effects, multiple-testing correction, biological interpretation).</li><li>Master’s or PhD (or current PhD candidate) in biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics, computer science, or a related field, completed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, or the UK.</li><li>Clear written English, comfort with ambiguity, and familiarity with AI/LLM tools like Claude or ChatGPT.</li><li>Based in the United States, Canada, or the UK (Ireland and Australia may also be accepted).</li></ul></section><section class="rd-section"><h2>How it works</h2><div class="rd-steps"><div class="rd-step"><span class="rd-step-n"></span><h3>Apply</h3></div><div class="rd-step"><span class="rd-step-n"></span><h3>Qualify</h3></div><div class="rd-step"><span class="rd-step-n"></span><h3>Work & get paid</h3></div></div></section><section class="rd-section"><h2>Compensation</h2><p>Up to $40 – $75+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $10k–$100k+ a year; some make it their full-time income.</p></section><section class="rd-section"><h2>About DataAnnotation</h2><p>DataAnnotation is where 100k+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. $150M+ paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. 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