Mercor · Finance & specialist
BioInformatics Experts
Listed on Mercor as “BioInformatics Experts”
What this actually is
You bring your specialist expertise to AI evaluation. The shape of the work varies but the pattern is the same: review outputs, rate quality, write prompts, flag errors. The platform title (BioInformatics Experts) reflects the rate band and the expertise required, not the day-to-day work.
Can you do this on your visa?
F-2 / F-4 / F-5 / F-6: open. E-1 to E-7: needs concurrent-employment permit. D-2 / D-4 students: S-3 permit, 20 hr/week cap. D-10 / D-8: case by case.
Korean tax on USD income
First 5 years in Korea: foreign-source income only taxed if remitted into Korea. After year 5: worldwide income. Full tax guide.
Original posting from Mercor
**What you'll do:**
- Complete realistic, multi-step scientific data-analysis tasks in bioinformatics
- Write original bioinformatics questions where each answer is exact and objective
- Choose and anonymize data (e.g. from public archives such as GEO, SRA/ENA, ArrayExpress, PRIDE, PDB, MGnify or from your own unpublished lab data) for the model to analyze
- Use scientific software, code, and command-line tools to generate reproducible analyses and structured final outputs
- Develop a Jupyter validation notebook, analyzing the data in Python or R, which reproduces the correct answer to your question
- Interpret results in the context of the underlying biological or translational question, clearly communicating assumptions, uncertainty, and conclusions
**Who we’re looking for**:
- Masters or PhD (or equivalent research experience) in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, statistical genetics, quantitative biology or a closely related field
- Hands-on experience analyzing sequencing and omics data (bulk or single-cell RNA-seq, WGS/WES, variant calling, metagenomics, proteomics or similar), from raw reads to interpretation
- Experience with one or more of the following tools: samtools, bcftools, bedtools, BWA, Bowtie2, BLAST, plus Python (pandas, Biopython, pysam) or R/Bioconductor (DESeq2, edgeR, limma, GenomicRanges)
- Able to write and run Jupyter notebooks that reproduce your work exactly
- Clear, precise scientific writing
- Access to unpublished or private datasets you have the right to share is a strong plus
- Deep knowledge of at least one niche area, such as a non-model organism, an unusual assay, or a specialized area of genomic interpretation is a strong plus
Quoted from Mercor’s public listing on 2026-10-14.We don’t edit platform copy; honest framing is in the title and the “what this actually is” block above.
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