Remote Physics Content Architect for AI Benchmarking

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible schedule

Professional references

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous MCQs 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 responsibilities spanning problem design, clarity, difficulty rating, and citation provision.

Qualifications

• PhD in Physics or doctoral candidate required.
• Strong ability to design rigorous physics problems and solutions.
• Excellent written English with concise, precise exposition.

Responsibilities

• Author physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Verify and edit questions for clarity, completeness, and solvability.
• Rate difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert and provide justifications.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Draft step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in Markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.

Skills

Physics expertise

Question design

Academic English writing

Peer-review

Education

PhD in Physics

Master's in Physics or related

Tools

LaTeX

Markdown

Reference management tools

Job description

Mercor seeks expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous MCQs 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 responsibilities spanning problem design, clarity, difficulty rating, and citation provision.