# Applied Mathematics Benchmark Specialist

**Company:** [Weekday AI](null/companies/pxG9rDgnvZm2c86JUchT1j.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Contract
**Department:** AI Training

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## Description

**This role is for one of our clients**

**Compensation: $61 - $77 per hour**

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.

## Requirements

**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 clear, 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

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.