Mercor
Product Engineer, Talent Experience
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
TypeScriptReactDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentGitAPI DevelopmentLLMsResearch
About the role
- Assessment is at the core of how Mercor works: every expert in our network is vetted, matched, and continuously evaluated through our assessment platform.
- This is a high-leverage role: improvements to assessment quality and throughput compound across everything Mercor does.
- Contribute across the stack, including the candidate- and expert-facing product surfaces of assessment flows.
Responsibilities
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- Build the evaluation systems that decide how tens of thousands of AI experts are matched to the world's most important AI work.
- Join a small, high-velocity engineering team where you'll own features end-to-end and shape the assessment roadmap from day one.
- Design, build, and ship backend services and APIs that power Mercor's assessment platform at scale.
- Own features end-to-end-from product discussions and technical design to implementation, testing, and release.
- Build evaluation pipelines and data models that combine human judgment with AI-powered scoring.
Nice to have
- Comfortable working across the stack, including modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React/TypeScript) when the product needs it.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Comfortable working in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities.
- High ownership, curiosity, and a bias toward shipping.
Skills
- every expert in our network is vetted, matched, and continuously evaluated through our assessment platform.
- Leverage modern AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining a high engineering bar.
- Improve the performance, reliability, and observability of assessment infrastructure.
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 proximity 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.
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
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