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 Mathematics Benchmark Specialist
Type: Contract
Compensation: $61–$77/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 10+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities
Author original math questions that test deep conceptual understanding in Signal Processing , Financial Mathematics , and other domains.
Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement.
Rate each question's difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert, providing 1 correct answer and 9 plausible alternatives.
Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with explicit, concise intermediate steps in markdown format.




Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources like peer-reviewed journals.
For verification tasks, flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.

Qualifications

Must-Have
PhD or doctoral candidate in Mathematics , Applied Mathematics , Statistics , or a closely related field.
Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.
Robust command of graduate-level mathematical concepts and formal proof writing.
Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Preferred
Experience with rigorous academic problem design or mathematical competition writing.
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