Biostatistics Expert

What you'll do

You write hard problems from your own working life and solve them. The ad lists trial design, survival analysis, dose response and genetic studies as the territory. Each problem is worked through to a reference answer with the statistical reasoning behind every step, and these are used by frontier AI labs to test model judgment. The third responsibility is the distinctive one: catching methodological mistakes that look reasonable but only a practitioner would spot.

The ad is explicit about who it does not want: clinicians or wet lab scientists without a statistics role.

Who fits

• A Master's or PhD in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, statistical genetics or pharmacometrics
• 3+ years full time in a statistical role; internships and school do not count
• Hands-on experience with clinical, epidemiological or genetic data
• Comfortable with R, SAS or Python
• Strong written English and the ability to explain an analysis clearly
• At least 10 hours a week available

Preferred: experience designing trials, running survival or mixed models, building PK/PD models, or analyzing genetic association studies.

What it pays

The board shows $115/hr and the ad text gives no range, so that is the figure. Pay is weekly via Stripe. The ad describes the work as fully async with no fixed hours, a 10 hour weekly minimum and no maximum, scaling up or down week to week, as independent contractor ongoing project work, with no screen recording, keystroke monitoring or idle timers.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Pay is a single clear figure, weekly
• Work is in your own specialty and judged on statistical judgment, not volume
• No monitoring software, no fixed hours
• Ongoing project work

Less good:

• The experience bar is strict: three full years in a statistical role, and school or internships are explicitly excluded
• A 10 hour weekly minimum applies
• The ad does not describe its hiring process; AfterQuery's help centre describes an unpaid one-attempt assessment and ID verification, covered on the company page

About this listing

Read from the AfterQuery Experts board on 18 October 2026, posted there on 6 October 2026 under the Data Analysis department. Qualifications, hours terms and payment details are the ad's own text. Sibling AfterQuery listings include Data Scientist Expert and Econometrics Expert. See AfterQuery.