[Hiring] Applied Mathematics Benchmark Specialist @Weekday AI

Role Description

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.

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.

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.

Requirements

• Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week.
• Asynchronous, fully remote work.

Benefits

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