Economics & Finance Benchmark Architect (Remote)

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote contract

Flexible schedule

10+ hours/week

Job summary

Confidential is seeking expert economists and finance professionals to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft and verify rigorous MC questions across core economics and finance topics, evaluate solutions, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will work on two task types: Question Authoring and Question Verification, ensuring questions are self-contained, clearly defined, and appropriately

Qualifications

• PhD in economics or doctoral candidate with strong research background.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.
• Experience with academic research and finance/economics modeling.

Responsibilities

• Author original economics and finance questions testing deep understanding.
• Verify questions for clarity, precision, and solvability; edit as needed.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors with rationale and references.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown.

Skills

Economics theory

Finance theory

Academic writing

Critical thinking

English proficiency

Education

PhD in Economics

PhD candidate

Masters in Economics

Tools

Stata

R

Python

Job description

Confidential is seeking expert economists and finance professionals to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft and verify rigorous MC questions across core economics and finance topics, evaluate solutions, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will work on two task types: Question Authoring and Question Verification, ensuring questions are self-contained, clearly defined, and appropriately