Remote Chemistry Assessment Architect

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Job summary

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

This fully remote role requires a PhD or doctoral candidate in chemistry or a closely related field, with strong command of graduate-level concepts and clear written English.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level chemistry concepts, reaction mechanisms, and quantitative analysis.
• Experience with rigorous academic problem design or chemistry olympiad writing is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original chemistry questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• 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 (peer-reviewed journals, university repositories)
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Skills

Chemistry expert

Academic writing

Question design

English proficiency

Education

PhD in Chemistry

PhD candidate

Tools

LaTeX

Job description

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

This fully remote role requires a PhD or doctoral candidate in chemistry or a closely related field, with strong command of graduate-level concepts and clear written English.