Remote Chemistry Expert for AI Assessment Content

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert chemists 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 for AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: Question Authoring or Question Verification, requiring precise problem statements, clear explanations, and referencing 1–5 academic sources per question.

Qualifications

• PhD in Chemistry or doctoral candidate with strong chemistry knowledge.
• Experience designing rigorous academic problems or olympiad-style questions is a plus.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Author original chemistry questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Rate difficulty levels: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with intermediate steps.

Skills

Organic chemistry

Analytical chemistry

Physical chemistry

Domain expertise

Academic writing

Education

PhD in Chemistry

PhD candidate

Tools

LaTeX

Markdown

Job description

Mercor seeks expert chemists 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 for AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types: Question Authoring or Question Verification, requiring precise problem statements, clear explanations, and referencing 1–5 academic sources per question.