Remote AI Math Assessment Architect (PhD)

Mercor; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert mathematicians 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 mathematics 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 or Question Verification, both conducted remotely and asynchronously, with 10+ hours per week commitment.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level mathematical concepts and formal proof writing.
• Experience with rigorous academic problem design or mathematical competition writing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original math questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined.
• 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 in markdown.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.
• For verification tasks: flag clarity, completeness, precision, solvability and justify edits.

Skills

Mathematics expertise

Question design

Academic writing

Education

PhD in Mathematics

Tools

LaTeX

Markdown

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert mathematicians 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 mathematics 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 or Question Verification, both conducted remotely and asynchronously, with 10+ hours per week commitment.