Remote Physics Content Specialist - AI Benchmark & QA

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Obsidian is seeking expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous MCQs across core physics 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 remote work and a 10+ hour weekly commitment.

Qualifications

• PhD or doctoral candidate in Physics or closely related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level physics concepts.
• Experience with rigorous academic problem design or physics olympiad writing is a strong plus.

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 but subtly incorrect alternatives.
• Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise intermediate steps in markdown format.
• Supply 1-5 academic references per question from reputable sources (peer-reviewed journals, university repositories).
• For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify edits.

Skills

Graduate-level physics

Academic problem design

English writing

Education

PhD in Physics

Doctoral candidate

Master's in Physics (exceptional depth)

Job description

Obsidian is seeking expert physicists to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous MCQs across core physics 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 remote work and a 10+ hour weekly commitment.