Physics Content Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $77/hr

About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: Applied Physics Benchmark Specialist Type: Contract Compensation: $61–$77/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10+ hours/week Role Responsibilities • Author original physics questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall. • Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement. • Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above). • Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers. • Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise intermediate steps in markdown format. …