PhD Physicist - AI Physics Assessment Content Creator

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

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

You may focus on question authoring or verification, rating difficulty, and supplying references. This is a fully remote, asynchronous role with an expected commitment of 10+ hours per week.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Physics, or closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level physics concepts and mathematical formalism.
• Experience with rigorous academic problem design or physics olympiad writing is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original physics 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

PhD-level physics

Graduate-level physics concepts

Academic problem design

English writing clarity

Education

PhD in Physics

Master's in Physics (exceptional depth)

Tools

LaTeX

Markdown

Job description

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

You may focus on question authoring or verification, rating difficulty, and supplying references. This is a fully remote, asynchronous role with an expected commitment of 10+ hours per week.