Remote Philosophy PhD & Assessment Content Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert philosophers to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous philosophy questions, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will work asynchronously, fully remote, committing 10+ hours per week. Roles include Question Authoring or Question Verification across domains such as AI Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, and Epistemology.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Philosophy or closely related field.
• Master's degree considered for exceptional depth in a subdomain.
• Strong command of philosophical argumentation, formal logic, and canonical texts.

Responsibilities

• Author original philosophy questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all information in the problem statement.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in markdown format.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits.

Skills

Philosophical argumentation

Formal logic

Excellent written English

Education

PhD in Philosophy

Master's degree considered

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert philosophers to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous philosophy questions, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks for advancing AI capabilities.

You will work asynchronously, fully remote, committing 10+ hours per week. Roles include Question Authoring or Question Verification across domains such as AI Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, and Epistemology.