Agentic Life Science Expert (PPT)

Overview

ExpertWoka is seeking Computational Life Sciences experts with strong scientific programming skills to help develop realistic, multi-step tasks for agentic life sciences evaluation.

What You'll Do

• Design challenging scientific workflows across the life sciences.
• Create tasks that require multiple computational steps, not just single-script or simple Q&A solutions.
• Develop realistic input files, datasets, instructions, constraints, and expected deliverables.
• Build tasks where AI agents inspect data, select methods, execute analyses, troubleshoot issues, and synthesize results.
• Create reproducible expert solutions and objectively verifiable ground truths that run in controlled sandbox environments.
• Design robust automated or semi-automated grading criteria.

Requirements

• Ph.D., postdoctoral, or equivalent research experience in the life sciences.
• Strong demonstrated computational and scientific-programming experience.
• Strong scientific programming experience, particularly in Python.
• Experience performing multi-step computational scientific analyses.
• Ability to independently validate scientific reasoning and computational outputs.
• Ability to work full-time, 40 hours per week.
• Ability to provide 4 hours of PST overlap per day.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in one or more of: bioinformatics, computational genomics, systems biology, computational neuroscience, biostatistics, computational drug discovery, computational biochemistry, structural biology, protein engineering, or computational microbiology.
• Experience with scientific libraries and command-line tools.
• Experience creating reproducible research pipelines.
• Ability to translate authentic research workflows into bounded, objectively gradable tasks.
• Experience with AI agents, coding agents, or scientific AI systems.
• Experience building automated evaluation environments.
• Familiarity with Docker/Linux environments.
• Publications involving computational or data-intensive life sciences research.

Project Details

• Contractor assignment with no medical or paid leave.
• Immediate start.
• Average task handling time is 6-8 hours.
• The work involves controlled, network-isolated computational environments.

Evaluation Process

1. Interest Check Form (ICF)
2. Assessment
3. Delivery manager review