Role Overview

We are seeking expert mathematicians 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 mathematics 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 — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of mathematical expertise, rate their difficulty, and submit them for review.

- Question Verification — Review pre-written questions for accuracy, clarity, and rigor. Edit where needed, rate difficulty, and document any changes made.

Mathematics Domains Covered

Signal Processing, Financial Mathematics & Actuarial Science, Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Modeling of Ecological & Biological Systems, Mathematical Programming & Combinatorial Optimization, Geomathematics & Climate Modeling.

Key Responsibilities

- Author original math questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall

- Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all necessary information must be 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 transparent, 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 any edits made

Ideal Qualifications

- 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

- Strong command of graduate-level mathematical concepts and formal proof writing

- Experience with rigorous academic problem design or mathematical competition writing is a strong plus

- Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely

More About the Opportunity

- Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week

- Asynchronous, fully remote work

📌 Applied Mathematics PhD (Ottawa)
🏢 Mercor
📍 Ottawa