Remote Applied Physics Benchmark Architect

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai seeks expert physicists 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 physics 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 questions and rate their difficulty; Question Verification — review pre-written questions

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Physics or closely related field
• Strong command of graduate-level physics concepts and mathematical formalism
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely

Responsibilities

• Author original physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined
• 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 intermediate steps in markdown format
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits

Job description

Zekai seeks expert physicists 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 physics 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 questions and rate their difficulty; Question Verification — review pre-written questions