Remote Health Science Question Architect

Mercor; Toronto; Remote; CAD 55,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert medical and health science 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 health and medicine domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

This is fully remote with asynchronous collaboration, expected 10+ hours per week, and opportunities to contribute to a growing field

Qualifications

• MD, DO, PhD, or doctoral candidate in Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Public Health, or a closely related field.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Board certification, clinical experience, or research publications in health fields is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original health and medicine questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• 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, clinical guidelines).
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Skills

Medical expertise

Academic writing

English communication

Education

MD/DO/PhD or doctoral candidate in Medicine or related field

Master's degree in related field (exceptional depth)

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert medical and health science 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 health and medicine domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

This is fully remote with asynchronous collaboration, expected 10+ hours per week, and opportunities to contribute to a growing field