Remote Psychology Assessment Content Architect (PhD)

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking expert psychologists 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 psychology domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work remotely on an asynchronous basis, for an expected commitment of 10+ hours per week.

Qualifications

• PhD/doctoral candidate in psychology or related field.
• Strong command of graduate-level psychology theory and research methodology.
• Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Author original psychology questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
• 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.
• Supply 1–5 academic references per question.
• For verification: flag clarity/precision/solvability issues and justify edits.

Skills

Academic writing

Question design

Quality review

English proficiency

Education

PhD in Psychology or doctoral candidate

Graduate-level theory & methods

Job description

Mercor is seeking expert psychologists 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 psychology domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will work remotely on an asynchronous basis, for an expected commitment of 10+ hours per week.