Remote Applied Physics Benchmark Designer for AI Research

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking 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 and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work asynchronously, with tasks including authoring original questions or verifying pre-written ones, rating difficulty, and documenting any edits with clear justification.

Qualifications

• Strong command of graduate-level physics concepts and mathematical formalism.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Experience designing rigorous academic problems or physics olympiad style questions.

Responsibilities

• Author original physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Verify accuracy, clarity, and rigor of pre-written questions; edit as needed.
• Rate question difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert and document reasoning.
• Provide a correct answer plus 9 plausible distractors.
• Draft step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.

Skills

Graduate-level physics

Clear written English

Education

PhD in Physics

Doctoral candidate

Job description

Mercor is seeking 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 and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work asynchronously, with tasks including authoring original questions or verifying pre-written ones, rating difficulty, and documenting any edits with clear justification.