Remote AI Engineering Assessment Author (PhD)

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian seeks expert engineers 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 engineering 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 including rating difficulty and providing detailed solutions and

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, not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all necessary information must be in the problem statement.
• 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, concise intermediate steps in markdown format.
• 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

Technical writing

Question authoring

Engineering knowledge

English proficiency

Education

PhD in Engineering

Master's degree considered for exceptional depth

Tools

LaTeX

Markdown

Job description

Obsidian seeks expert engineers 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 engineering 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 including rating difficulty and providing detailed solutions and