Remote Medical Question Architect

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

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert medical and health science professionals 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 health and medicine 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 — create original, challenging questions with difficulty ratings and submit

Qualifications

• MD/DO/PhD or doctoral candidate in medicine or biomedical sciences.
• Graduate-level medical knowledge with strong writing ability.
• Ability to craft clear, self-contained questions with rationales.
• Experience in evidence-based review and clinical reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Author original health and medicine questions testing deep concepts.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with concise reasoning.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks: flag clarity or solvability issues and justify edits.

Skills

Medical knowledge

Clinical reasoning

Academic writing

Editorial review

Education

MD/DO/PhD

Doctoral candidate

Job description

Mercor seeks expert medical and health science professionals 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 health and medicine 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 — create original, challenging questions with difficulty ratings and submit