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

Adecuado 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 historiograph

📌 History PhD (Santiago)
🏢 Mercor
📍 Santiago