Remote AI Math Researcher & Problem Designer

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert mathematicians to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft challenging graduate-level questions in core mathematics, assess solutions, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will either author original questions or verify pre-written ones, rate difficulty, and provide clear edits with justification. Remote, part-time, 10+ hours/week with asynchronous collaboration.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Mathematics or related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level mathematical concepts and formal proof writing.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Author original math questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above)
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers
• 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 (peer-reviewed journals, university repositories)
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made

Skills

Academic writing

Proof writing

Problem design

Graduate-level mathematics

Education

PhD in Mathematics

Master's degree considered

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert mathematicians to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft challenging graduate-level questions in core mathematics, assess solutions, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will either author original questions or verify pre-written ones, rate difficulty, and provide clear edits with justification. Remote, part-time, 10+ hours/week with asynchronous collaboration.