Remote Applied Physics AI Assessment Architect

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

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 and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work remotely, with asynchronous collaboration, and take part in question authoring or verification, assessing difficulty, providing distractors, and citing references to ensure scholarly

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Physics or closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for exceptional depth in a subdomain.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all information must be in the problem statement.
• 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.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise intermediate steps in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Skills

PhD-level physics knowledge

Excellent written English

Education

PhD in Physics

Master's in Physics or related field

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 and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work remotely, with asynchronous collaboration, and take part in question authoring or verification, assessing difficulty, providing distractors, and citing references to ensure scholarly