Role Overview

We are seeking experts in history and political science 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 history and political science 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 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.

History & Political Science Domains Covered

National Security, Public Policy, Business History, Environmental History, Latin American History.

Key Responsibilities

- Author original history and political science 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 clear, concise reasoning 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

Idóneo Qualifications

- PhD or doctoral candidate in History, Political Science, International Relations, or a closely related field

- Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain

- Strong command of historiographical methods, political theory, and comparative analysis

- Research publications or policy experience 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

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📌 Political Science Expert - Fully Remote (México)
🏢 Mercor
📍 México