AI Benchmark Engineer — PhD (Remote & Flexible)

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert engineers to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft and verify rigorous MCQs across core engineering domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work asynchronously from anywhere, committing roughly 10+ hours per week. The role emphasizes deep conceptual problem design, precise wording, and clear explanations suitable for

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Engineering required or highly preferred.
• Excellent written English and concise technical communication.
• Strong command of graduate-level engineering principles and applied mathematics.

Responsibilities

• Author original engineering questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Rate difficulty and provide 1 correct answer plus 9 plausible distractors.
• Review and edit pre-written questions for accuracy and rigor.
• Provide step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.
• Flag clarity and solvability issues when verifying questions.

Skills

Graduate-level engineering principles

Technical writing

English proficiency

Education

PhD or doctoral candidate in Engineering

Master's degree in engineering

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert engineers to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft and verify rigorous MCQs across core engineering domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work asynchronously from anywhere, committing roughly 10+ hours per week. The role emphasizes deep conceptual problem design, precise wording, and clear explanations suitable for