Remote Applied Math Benchmark Architect

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 36,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert mathematicians 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 mathematics 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 — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of mathematical expertise, rate

Qualifications

• PhD in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or closely related field
• Graduate-level mathematical concepts and formal proof writing
• Excellent written English with ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely

Responsibilities

• Author original math questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Rate each question's difficulty (Medium/Hard/Expert).
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with 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.

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert mathematicians 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 mathematics 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 — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of mathematical expertise, rate