Remote: Applied Chemistry Benchmark Specialist

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 40,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert chemists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core chemistry domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: question authoring or question verification, with remote, asynchronous work and a 10+ hour weekly commitment.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, or closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for exceptional depth in a subdomain.
• Strong command of graduate-level chemistry concepts and reaction mechanisms.
• Experience with rigorous academic problem design or chemistry olympiad writing is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original chemistry questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• 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.
• 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 made.

Skills

Chemistry expertise

Reaction mechanisms

Academic writing

English writing clarity

Education

PhD or doctoral candidate in Chemistry/Biochemistry/Chemical Engineering

Master's degree considered for exceptional depth

Job description

Mercor seeks expert chemists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core chemistry domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: question authoring or question verification, with remote, asynchronous work and a 10+ hour weekly commitment.