Remote Legal Content & Assessment Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Mercor seeks legal experts 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 law 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, and you will help ensure questions are clear, self-contained, and precisely defined for robust

Qualifications

• Proven ability to craft complex legal questions that test deep concepts
• Strong command of law domains and ability to define unambiguous problems
• Ability to rate question difficulty: Medium, Hard, Expert
• Provide one correct answer plus nine plausible distractors
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources
• Flag issues with clarity or solvability and justify edits when verification tasks are involved

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Legal reasoning

Statutory interpretation

Academic writing

Jurisprudential theory

Education

JD/LLM/SJD or doctoral candidate in Law

Master's degree in a related field

Job description

Mercor seeks legal experts 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 law 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, and you will help ensure questions are clear, self-contained, and precisely defined for robust