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Senior Economist | Upto $90/hr

$90 per hour

Mercor

Toronto, ON
  • Remote job

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: Economics & Finance Assessment Specialist

Type: Contract

Compensation: $40–$90/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 10+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

  • Author original economics and finance 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 like peer-reviewed journals and university repositories.
  • 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 is a strong plus.

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