Applied Physics AI Assessment Architect (Remote)

Mercor; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Part time

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 multiple-choice questions 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 — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of physics expertise, rate their difficulty, and

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Physics, Applied Physics, Astrophysics, or a closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
• Strong command of graduate-level physics concepts.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• 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 that challenge expert-level solvers.
• 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 (peer-reviewed journals, university repositories).
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Skills

Graduate-level physics understanding

Clear scientific writing

Problem design experience

English proficiency

Education

PhD or Doctoral Candidate in Physics

Master's degree in a related field

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 multiple-choice questions 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 — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of physics expertise, rate their difficulty, and