Mercor
Software Engineer Intern
San Francisco · Intern · Internship
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 73 days ago
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About the role
- You'll write production code from your first week and ship work that reaches customers.
- You'll start on the work your team has wanted to do but hasn't had the hands for, and as needs come up you'll take deep ownership of them, with a named mentor alongside you.
- Interns start on a rolling basis, so summer, spring and fall terms all work.
Responsibilities
- You'll work closely with product and design, move fast, and hold a high bar for quality, scalability and simplicity.
Requirements
- Pursuing a degree in Computer Science or a related field, graduating 2027 to 2029
- Experience with APIs, SQL or NoSQL databases and cloud platforms
Compensation
- Compensation and Benefits
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.
- Agents. Internal agents that automate operational work across the company.
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