Mercor
Engineering Manager, Applied AI
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 32 days ago
Research
About the role
- This role requires high ownership and abstraction: setting direction, driving outcomes, and staying hands-on while leading.
- Establish strong ownership, culture, and execution standards
- Shape the team: define hiring processes, establish engineering practices, and scale a high-performing team from the ground up
Responsibilities
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- Manage and grow a team of 6-10 engineers
- Coach and develop high-potential engineers
- Build partnerships with leading AI labs and shape how frontier models improve
- You'll lead a team of engineers, partner with product and research, and help define how Mercor stays at the frontier of AI.
- You will also build partnerships with leading AI labs and directly contribute to improving the quality of frontier models through data, evaluation, and systems.
- Drive insights and methodology behind evaluation systems that benchmark and improve model performance
Requirements
- 6-10 years in engineering
- 2-3+ years managing teams
Nice to have
- San Francisco (preferred) or New York
Compensation
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- 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
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Company info
- by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone.
- Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day.
- 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.
- Lead development while driving improvements in data quality, operational efficiency, system stability, and scalability
- Scale products that generate high-quality training data and improve human-in-the-loop workflows
- Lead system design for complex AI systems
- Stay close to the technical work and guide engineers through ambiguous problems
- Translate high-level AI goals into clear engineering roadmaps and execution plans
- Partner with product, research, operations, and external AI labs
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