Pharmacist / Pharmacy Tech — Pronunciation Review at Mercor

Pharmacist / Pharmacy Technician | $70/hr | Remote (US)

Merctor-client AI healthcare project seeking U.S.-based pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to review spoken medication names and score their pronunciation against a structured rubric.

What You'll Do

• Review short audio samples containing spoken medication names.
• Evaluate whether medication names are pronounced accurately and clearly.
• Score audio samples using a structured evaluation rubric.
• Identify pronunciation errors, ambiguities, or inconsistencies.
• Apply evaluation standards consistently across review tasks.
• Participate in an initial calibration exercise to align on scoring expectations.
• Complete additional review batches as project needs arise.
• Provide concise feedback where clarification or correction is required.

Requirements

• Licensed Pharmacist (PharmD/RPh) or experienced Pharmacy Technician.
• Professional pharmacy experience in the United States.
• Strong familiarity with generic and brand-name medications common in U.S. pharmacy practice.
• Comfortable recognising and assessing medication terminology when spoken aloud.
• High attention to detail and ability to distinguish subtle pronunciation differences.
• Able to follow detailed rubrics and apply scoring criteria consistently.
• Strong written and spoken U.S. English proficiency.

Preferred

• Several years of hands-on pharmacy experience.
• Regular experience communicating medication names verbally with patients, pharmacists, physicians, or other healthcare professionals.
• Familiarity with a broad range of therapeutic areas and medication classes.
• Experience in quality assurance, annotation, clinical review, transcription review, or structured evaluation work is helpful but not required.

Details

This is hourly contract work at $70/hr, fully remote and open to applicants based in the United States. Experience in retail, hospital, speciality, mail-order, or other pharmacy settings is welcome. The role involves no direct patient care — you'll apply your pharmacy expertise to the development and evaluation of advanced AI systems, with the opportunity to join additional projects as new review work becomes available.