Applied Physics PhD - Remote AI Question Designer

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert physicists 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 physics 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 duties to create or review questions, rate difficulty, provide correct answers and

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Physics or closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level physics concepts and mathematical formalism.
• Experience with rigorous problem design or olympiad writing is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined—information contained in the problem statement.

Skills

Academic writing

Physics problem design

Question authoring

Review & verification

Education

PhD in Physics

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert physicists 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 physics 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 duties to create or review questions, rate difficulty, provide correct answers and