Remote Law Content Architect for AI Benchmarks

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Asynchronous collaboration

Job summary

Mercor is seeking legal experts to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core law domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work on one of two task types: Question Authoring or Question Verification, with remote collaboration and flexible scheduling.

Qualifications

• Strong command of legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, and jurisprudential theory.
• Ability to author original law questions with clear, unambiguous statements.
• Experience with bar exam writing, legal academia, or judicial clerkships is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original law questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Rate difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.
• For verification tasks: flag clarity or solvability issues and justify edits.

Skills

Legal reasoning

Statutory interpretation

Jurisprudential theory

Academic English writing

Education

JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate

Master's degree considered for exceptional depth

Tools

Peer-reviewed references

Job description

Mercor is seeking legal experts to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core law domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work on one of two task types: Question Authoring or Question Verification, with remote collaboration and flexible scheduling.