Applied Psychology Benchmark Specialist (Remote)

Job overview

The Applied Psychology Benchmark Specialist role is remote, with a commitment of 10+ hours per week. Compensation is $50–$63 per hour. Mercor connects creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This role develops and reviews psychology questions and solutions to support AI model training. The specialist creates rigorous, clearly defined questions, rates their difficulty, supplies answer choices and academic references, and flags issues in verification tasks.

What you'll do

• Author original psychology questions that test conceptual understanding
• ensure questions are unambiguous and self-contained
• rate difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert
• provide one correct answer and nine plausible alternatives
• write step-by-step solutions in markdown
• supply 1–5 academic references per question
• identify and justify edits to unclear or incomplete verification tasks.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

remote

applied psychology

psychology questions

ai model training

benchmarking

question design

research methodology

academic references

doctoral candidate

mercor

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Remote work with a commitment of 10+ hours per week; doctoral-level psychology expertise is sought, with a master’s degree considered for exceptional subdomain depth.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: Employment Placement Agencies. Sector: 56.