Remote Physics Assessment Architect

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for AI research. You will write and verify rigorous physics questions across core domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities. Tasks include authoring or verifying questions, rating difficulty, and providing references. Fully remote, asynchronous, 10+ hours/week.

Qualifications

• PhD in physics or closely related field required.
• Strong ability to design rigorous, self-contained physics problems.
• Excellent written English and ability to explain complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Author original physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
• Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible alternatives.
• Write step-by-step solutions in Markdown and supply 1–5 references per question.
• For verification tasks: flag clarity or solvability issues and justify edits.

Skills

PhD in Physics

Problem design

Technical writing

English proficiency

Education

PhD candidate or PhD

Tools

LaTeX

Markdown

Reference management

Job description

Mercor seeks expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for AI research. You will write and verify rigorous physics questions across core domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities. Tasks include authoring or verifying questions, rating difficulty, and providing references. Fully remote, asynchronous, 10+ hours/week.