Remote AI Assessment Architect

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert computer scientists 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 computer science 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 or Question Verification, with responsibilities spanning quality, difficulty rating, and

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Computer Science or related field.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.
• Experience with academic assessment or problem-set design is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original computer science 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 intermediate steps in Markdown.
• Supply 1-5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits.

Skills

Question authoring

Question verification

Academic writing

Critical evaluation

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Master's degree considered

Tools

LaTeX

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert computer scientists 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 computer science 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 or Question Verification, with responsibilities spanning quality, difficulty rating, and