Medical Assessment Content Specialist

Mercor; Sydney; Remote; AUD 187,000 - 237,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This remote contract role focuses on applying health and medicine benchmarking with 10+ hours/week commitment.

Compensation ranges from $94 to $119 per hour, reflecting senior expertise and flexible scheduling for a distributed team. The Specialist will craft high-quality health and medicine benchmark questions, ensuring clarity, defining difficulty levels, and providing answers with plausible distractors,

Qualifications

• MD/DO/PhD or doctoral candidate in Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Public Health, or a closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and biomedical research methodology.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original health and medicine questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information included.
• Rate each question's difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert to challenge expert-level solvers.
• Provide one correct answer and nine plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format.
• Supply 1-5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks, flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Skills

Graduate-level medical knowledge

Clinical reasoning

Biomedical research methodology

Excellent written English

Education

MD/DO/PhD or doctoral candidate

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Applied Health & Medicine Benchmark Specialist
Type: Contract
Compensation: $94-119/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Author original health and medicine questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information included.
• Rate each question's difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert to challenge expert-level solvers.
• Provide one correct answer and nine plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format.
• Supply 1-5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks, flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• MD, DO, PhD, or doctoral candidate in Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Public Health, or a closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
• Strong command of graduate-level medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and biomedical research methodology.
• Board certification, clinical experience, or research publications in health fields is a strong plus.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.