Remote Applied Physics Benchmark Architect

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous MCQs across core physics domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You may work as a Question Authoring or Question Verification role, with 10+ hours per week and asynchronous, fully remote work.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Physics or a closely related field.
• Strong ability to design rigorous, self-contained physics questions.
• Excellent written English and ability to communicate complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Author original physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all necessary information must be in the problem statement.
• 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
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made

Skills

Graduate level physics

Problem design

Academic writing

Education

PhD in Physics

Doctoral candidate

Job description

Mercor seeks expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous MCQs across core physics domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You may work as a Question Authoring or Question Verification role, with 10+ hours per week and asynchronous, fully remote work.