Remote Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 87,000 - 109,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role, offering $83–$105 per hour and a commitment of 10+ hours per week. The candidate will craft test questions to evaluate deep legal understanding, with a focus on clarity, precision, and rigor.

Required JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate, plus strong legal reasoning and excellent written English. Master’s degree is considered for exceptional depth. Prior bar exam writing or academia experience is a strong plus.

Qualifications

• Strong command of legal reasoning and statutory interpretation.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex legal ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original law questions to test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information 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 reasoning in markdown.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.

Skills

Legal reasoning

Statutory interpretation

Jurisprudential theory

Written English

Education

JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate

Master's degree considered

Job description

Mercor is seeking an Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist for a remote contract role, offering $83–$105 per hour and a commitment of 10+ hours per week. The candidate will craft test questions to evaluate deep legal understanding, with a focus on clarity, precision, and rigor.

Required JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate, plus strong legal reasoning and excellent written English. Master’s degree is considered for exceptional depth. Prior bar exam writing or academia experience is a strong plus.