Hirely is recruiting qualified physics and applied physics professionals for a remote AI research and evaluation opportunity with one of our hiring partners.
About the Role
We are seeking experienced physicists and researchers to create and evaluate challenging academic assessment questions for an AI research initiative.
You will contribute to the development of high-quality physics benchmarks designed to evaluate AI system's understanding of advanced physics concepts. Depending on your expertise, you may work on question authoring, question verification, or both.
What You'll Do
- Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions across specialized physics domains.
- Develop questions that test deep conceptual understanding rather than basic memorization.
- Ensure questions are accurate, unambiguous and self-contained.
- Assign difficulty levels ranging from undergraduate to postgraduate and expert level.
- Provide one correct answer and nine plausible but incorrect alternatives.
- Prepare detailed worked solutions with clear intermediate steps.
- Support questions with 1–5 academic references from reputable sources.
- Review existing questions for accuracy, clarity, completeness and scientific rigor.
- Identify and document necessary corrections to questions and solutions.
Physics Domains The project covers several specialized areas, including:
- PhD holders or doctoral candidates in Physics, Applied Physics, Astrophysics or closely related disciplines.
- Master's degree candidates may be considered with exceptional expertise in a relevant subdomain.
- Strong understanding of graduate-level physics and mathematical formalism.
- Excellent written English and ability to explain complex scientific concepts.
- Ability to develop, assess and verify rigorous academic questions.
Experience in academic assessment design, physics olympiad question writing or research-based content development is a solid advantage. Compensation & Commitment
- Pay: $61-$77 per hour
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: 10+ hours per week
- Schedule: Flexible and asynchronous
- Contract: Independent contractor
- Payments: Weekly via Stripe or Wise
About Hirely Hirely connects qualified professionals with remote opportunities offered by hiring partners across Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cloud, DevOps, Data, Research, and other specialized fields. Hirely may serve as a recruitment and talent-sourcing partner. Final hiring decisions, onboarding, compensation, and project assignments are determined by the hiring partner.
📌 Applied Physics Benchmark Specialist (India)
🏢 Hirely
📍 India
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