Remote Legal Content Architect for AI Assessments

Mercor; Sydney; On-site; AUD 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking 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, rate difficulty, and provide references.

This is a fully remote, asynchronous role with a commitment of 10+ hours per week. The role supports global collaboration across Intellectual Property, Privacy, Regulatory, and other law domains.

Qualifications

• JD, LLM, SJD, or doctoral candidate in Law or closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for exceptional depth in a subdomain.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely.
• Experience with bar exam writing, legal academia, or judicial clerkships is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original law questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all necessary information must be in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above).
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers
• 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 (peer-reviewed journals, legal repositories)
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made

Skills

Legal reasoning

Statutory interpretation

Academic writing

Education

JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate in Law

Master's degree in Law (exceptional depth)

Job description

Mercor is seeking 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, rate difficulty, and provide references.

This is a fully remote, asynchronous role with a commitment of 10+ hours per week. The role supports global collaboration across Intellectual Property, Privacy, Regulatory, and other law domains.