Remote Engineering PhD Assessment Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 48,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

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

You will work asynchronously in a fully remote capacity, with an expected commitment of 10+ hours per week.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in engineering or related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level engineering principles and applied mathematics.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Author original engineering questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate).
• 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.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits.

Education

PhD in Engineering or closely related field

Master's degree considered for exceptional depth in a subdomain

Job description

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

You will work asynchronously in a fully remote capacity, with an expected commitment of 10+ hours per week.