Remote AI Biology Benchmark Architect

1000scholars; United States; Remote; USD 2,700 - 5,500; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert biologists 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 biology 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 asynchronous collaboration and weekly payments.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Biology or closely related field.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.
• Experience in biology education or research is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original biology questions testing deep conceptual understanding.
• Review and verify pre-written questions for accuracy and clarity.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Write step-by-step chain-of-thought solutions and cite references.
• Flag issues with clarity, completeness, or solvability and justify edits.

Skills

Biology expertise

English proficiency

Academic writing

Education

PhD in Biology

Doctoral candidate

Master's degree considered

Job description

Mercor seeks expert biologists 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 biology 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 asynchronous collaboration and weekly payments.