Large-scale language models need to be trained on specialized knowledge to advance scientific discovery, democratize education, and support global public health efforts. The business problem is to leverage expertise in viral transmission to improve the accuracy and reasoning of these AI models.
Requirements
- Specialists who live and breathe viral transmission dynamics, epidemiology, host-pathogen interactions, environmental factors, vector biology, infection control, and outbreak investigation
- Expertise in viral transmission
- Experience in outbreak response and infection prevention
Responsibilities
- Challenge advanced language models on topics like modes of viral spread, reproductive numbers (R₀), superspreading events, viral shedding, aerosol and contact transmission, prevention strategies, and modeling transmission patterns
- Documenting every failure mode so we can harden model reasoning
- Converse with the model on real-world viral transmission scenarios and theoretical questions
- Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness
- Capture reproducible error traces
- Suggest improvements to our prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
Other
- PhD in virology, epidemiology, microbiology, public health, or a closely related life‑science field is ideal
- Peer‑reviewed publications
- Applied research on viral transmission
- Clear, metacognitive communication—"showing your work"—is essential
- As a contractor you'll supply a secure computer and high‑speed internet; company‑sponsored benefits such as health insurance and PTO do not apply
