AI Math Assessment Designer (PhD) — Remote

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown 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, with responsibilities including rating difficulty and providing precise

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Mathematics or closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level mathematical concepts and formal proof writing.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.

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 but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear intermediate steps in Markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits.

Education

PhD in Mathematics

Doctoral candidate in Mathematics

Master's degree in Mathematics or related field

Job description

Unknown 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, with responsibilities including rating difficulty and providing precise