Applied Philosophy Benchmark Specialist – AI Trainer

Job overview

The Applied Philosophy Benchmark Specialist – AI Trainer role is listed as remote, with the listing location in Boston, MA. Compensation is $50–$63 per hour. Mercor connects creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This role develops and verifies philosophy benchmark questions that assess deep conceptual understanding. It contributes to AI research by producing precise questions, answer choices, reasoned solutions, and academic references.

What you'll do

• Author original philosophy questions that test conceptual understanding
• ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined
• rate difficulty as medium, hard, or expert
• provide one correct answer and nine plausible incorrect alternatives
• write step-by-step solutions in markdown
• supply 1–5 academic references per question
• review verification tasks for clarity, completeness, precision, and solvability and justify edits.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

philosophy

ai trainer

benchmark specialist

remote

boston ma

mercor

$50–$63/hour

10+ hours/week

phd

doctoral candidate

formal logic

academic references

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Remote opportunity for philosophy PhDs or doctoral candidates; master's degree may be considered for exceptional subdomain depth. Commitment is 10+ hours per week.

About the employer

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