Finance Expert - Fully Remote Upto $98 HR
mercor
📍 Remote🌐 Remote💰 $77–$98/yr🕐 23d ago🔗 himalayas
Job Description
### About the job
**Mercor** connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include **Benchmark**, **General Catalyst**, **Peter Thiel**, **Adam D'Angelo**, **Larry Summers**, and **Jack Dorsey**.
**Position:** Applied Economics & Finance Benchmark Specialist
**Type:****Contract**
**Compensation:****$77–$98/hour**
**Location:****Remote**
**Commitment:****10+ hours/week**
### Role Responsibilities
* Author original **economics** and **finance** questions that test deep conceptual understanding.
* Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined.
* Rate each question's difficulty: Medium, Hard, or Expert.
* Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives.
* Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions in **markdown** format.
* Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources.
* For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made.
### Qualifications
**Must-Have**
* ****PhD** or doctoral candidate in **Economics**, **Finance**, or a closely related field.**
* ****Master's degree** considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain.**
* **Strong command of graduate-level economic theory, quantitative methods, and financial modeling.**
* **Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely.**
### **Preferred**
* **Experience with academic research, **CFA/CPA certification**, or financial industry expertise.**
### **Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)**
* **Upload resume**
* **AI interview based on your resume**
* **Submit form**
### **Resources & Support**
* **For details about the interview process and platform information, please check:**
* **For any help or support, reach out to:**
**_PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity._**
Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)