Remote Law Assessment Architect

Mercor; Sydney; Remote; AUD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Asynchronous work

10+ hours/week

Job summary

Mercor seeks legal experts to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core law domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You may participate as Question Authoring or Question Verification, rate difficulty, provide explanations, and supply 1 correct answer plus 9 plausible distractors.

Qualifications

• JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate in Law or closely related field.
• Strong command of legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, and jurisprudential theory.
• Experience with academic writing, bar exam writing, or legal scholarship is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original law questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear 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 edits.

Skills

Legal research

Academic writing

Question drafting

Policy interpretation

Jurisprudence analysis

Education

JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate

Doctoral candidate in Law

Job description

Mercor seeks legal experts to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core law domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You may participate as Question Authoring or Question Verification, rate difficulty, provide explanations, and supply 1 correct answer plus 9 plausible distractors.