Economics PhD - Assessment Specialist

About the role

Economics PhD - Assessment Specialist at Mercor. Author original economics and finance questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall.

What you'll do

• Author original economics and finance questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall
• Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined with all necessary information in the problem statement
• Rate each question's difficulty as Medium, Hard, or Expert, and provide 1 correct answer with 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives
• 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 like peer-reviewed journals and university repositories

What you need

• Financial modelling

Good to have

• CFA