Remote: Engineering Benchmark & Question Authoring

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert engineers 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 engineering 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 or Question Verification, with responsibilities spanning clarity, rigor, and documentation of edits.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Engineering or closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original engineering 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.

Education

PhD in Engineering

Master's in Engineering (exceptional depth)

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert engineers 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 engineering 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 or Question Verification, with responsibilities spanning clarity, rigor, and documentation of edits.