Remote Biology AI Assessment Specialist (PhD)

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert biologists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

As a remote contributor, you will be assigned one of two task types: question authoring or question verification, with the responsibility to ensure clarity, precision, and substantial domain knowledge

Responsibilities

• Author original biology questions that test deep conceptual understanding
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible alternatives
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions 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

Mercor is seeking expert biologists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

As a remote contributor, you will be assigned one of two task types: question authoring or question verification, with the responsibility to ensure clarity, precision, and substantial domain knowledge