Economics & Finance Question Architect (Remote)

Obsidian; Toronto; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Asynchronous schedule

Job summary

Obsidian is seeking expert economists and finance professionals 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 economics and finance domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: Question Authoring — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Economics, Finance, or a closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for exceptional depth in a subdomain.

Responsibilities

• Author original economics and finance 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 intermediate steps in markdown format
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources (peer-reviewed journals, university repositories)
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made

Skills

Economics expertise

Finance expertise

Education

PhD in Economics/Finance

Master's degree considered

Job description

Obsidian is seeking expert economists and finance professionals 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 economics and finance domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: Question Authoring — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of