Engineering Benchmark Architect (Remote)

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking expert engineers to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will author and verify rigorous questions, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

This is a fully remote contract role requiring located in the United States, with 10+ hours per week. Ideal candidates hold a PhD or are doctoral candidates in engineering, possess strong graduate-level knowledge,

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Engineering or closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level engineering principles and applied mathematics.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Author original engineering questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear intermediate steps in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Skills

PhD in Engineering

Academic writing

Graduate-level engineering principles

Education

PhD in Engineering

Master's degree considered

Job description

Confidential is seeking expert engineers to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will author and verify rigorous questions, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

This is a fully remote contract role requiring located in the United States, with 10+ hours per week. Ideal candidates hold a PhD or are doctoral candidates in engineering, possess strong graduate-level knowledge,