Remote Mathematics Assessment Architect

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert mathematicians 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 mathematics 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 including difficulty rating, edits, and documenting changes.

Qualifications

• PhD in Mathematics or doctoral candidate with strong proof-writing ability.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Experience designing rigorous math problems or academic problem writing is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Author original math questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are self-contained and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Document edits and justify changes when verifying questions.

Skills

PhD in Mathematics

Academic writing

Proof-writing

English proficiency

Education

PhD in Mathematics

Tools

LaTeX

Markdown

Job description

Mercor seeks expert mathematicians 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 mathematics 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 including difficulty rating, edits, and documenting changes.