Remote Legal Benchmark Specialist

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; AUD 164,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist for remote contract work at 10+ hours per week with compensation of $83–$105 per hour. You will craft exam-style legal questions that test deep understanding, ensure clarity and self-containment in prompts, rate difficulty, and provide one correct answer with nine plausible distractors.

You will also write step-by-step solutions and cite references. Candidates should hold a JD, LLM, or be a doctoral candidate, with strong legal reasoning

Qualifications

• JD, LLM, or doctoral candidate in Law.
• Strong command of legal reasoning and interpretation.
• Excellent written English.

Responsibilities

• Author original law questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.
• 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 reasoning in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources (peer-reviewed journals, legal repositories).
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Skills

Legal reasoning

Statutory interpretation

Jurisprudential theory

Written English

Education

JD

LLM

SJD

Doctoral candidate in Law

Master's degree considered

Job description

Mercor is seeking an Applied Legal Benchmark Specialist for remote contract work at 10+ hours per week with compensation of $83–$105 per hour. You will craft exam-style legal questions that test deep understanding, ensure clarity and self-containment in prompts, rate difficulty, and provide one correct answer with nine plausible distractors.

You will also write step-by-step solutions and cite references. Candidates should hold a JD, LLM, or be a doctoral candidate, with strong legal reasoning