Mercor
Tech Lead Manager, Frontier Data Products
New York City · Junior
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About the role
- Turning that raw material into useful data products is technically difficult.
- Each modality has different formats, quality failures, processing costs, privacy considerations, and review workflows.
- The final product still needs to be consistent, traceable, and trustworthy.
Responsibilities
- Design systems that support the full lifecycle of image, video, audio, document, and mixed-media data-from initial inputs through processing, review, validation, versioning, and delivery.
- Build quality systems that combine automated evaluation, model-assisted checks, expert review, sampling, and adjudication.
- Own the reliability, performance, and cost of storage-heavy, compute-intensive, long-running workflows.
- Stay hands-on by writing production code, leading design reviews, and directly contributing to the team's most consequential technical work.
- Manage and develop engineers through clear expectations, frequent feedback, thoughtful delegation, and meaningful ownership.
- Partner with product, ML, operations, and customer-facing teams to turn new customer needs into durable product capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
- You will shape both the multimodal product architecture and the engineering team building it.
- The team can launch support for a new modality or product without building an entirely separate system.
- Create reusable abstractions across modalities while preserving the differences that matter for quality, performance, and customer requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree such as Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Statistics
- 1+ year of experience managing a strong engineering team while remaining an effective, hands-on technical leader.
- 3+ years of deep experience designing and operating production backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems.
- Experience working with large unstructured data, asynchronous processing, metadata and versioning, or compute-heavy workflows.
Benefits
- Up to $15k Relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Company info
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
- We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models.
- Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models.
- Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work.
- Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies:
- helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
- Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.
- Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team.
- You'll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
- Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.
- We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
- The team's work sits directly between complex real-world inputs and the data products delivered to frontier AI customers.
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