Applied CS Benchmark Architect — Remote Contract

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 179,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote contract

Job summary

Confidential is seeking expert computer scientists to author or verify high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and review rigorous computer science questions across core domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: Question Authoring to create original, challenging questions with difficulty ratings and reviews; or Question Verification to

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in CS/EE.
• Strong command of graduate-level CS theory and algorithms.
• Experience writing and reviewing rigorous academic questions and explanations.
• Ability to craft questions with precise problem statements and solution rationales.

Responsibilities

• Author original CS questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Rate difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.
• For verification tasks: flag clarity, completeness, precision, solvability and justify edits.

Skills

CS theory

Algorithms

Academic writing

English proficiency

ML basics

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Master's in CS

Job description

Confidential is seeking expert computer scientists to author or verify high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and review rigorous computer science questions across core domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: Question Authoring to create original, challenging questions with difficulty ratings and reviews; or Question Verification to