Remote Philosophy PhD — AI Q&A Authoring & Vetting

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert philosophers to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft original philosophy questions, assess difficulty, and ensure each problem is self-contained with a single correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.

This asynchronous, fully remote role requires outstanding written English, rigorous argumentation, and the ability to deliver clear, well-referenced material for gold-standard benchmarks used to advance

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Philosophy or closely related field.
• Strong command of philosophical argumentation and formal logic.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Author original philosophy questions that test deep conceptual understanding and not surface-level recall.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all information in the problem statement.
• 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 clear reasoning in markdown format.
• Provide 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits.

Skills

Philosophy

Analytical reasoning

Formal logic

Academic writing

Critical thinking

Education

PhD in Philosophy

Master's in Philosophy or related field

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert philosophers to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will craft original philosophy questions, assess difficulty, and ensure each problem is self-contained with a single correct answer and 9 plausible distractors.

This asynchronous, fully remote role requires outstanding written English, rigorous argumentation, and the ability to deliver clear, well-referenced material for gold-standard benchmarks used to advance