Biology Assessment Architect - Remote

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 117,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote asynchronous work

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert biologists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous MCQs across core biology 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 asynchronous, fully remote work and a commitment of 10+ hours per week.

Qualifications

• PhD in Biology or closely related field.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.
• Experience in experimental design or scientific writing.

Responsibilities

• Author original biology 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.

Skills

Academic writing

Biology expertise

Critical thinking

Education

PhD in Biology or closely related field

Master's degree in related field

Job description

Mercor seeks expert biologists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous MCQs across core biology 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 asynchronous, fully remote work and a commitment of 10+ hours per week.