Mercor
Software Engineer, Platform
New York City · Mid
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About the role
- This role focuses on two critical areas: Contracts and Identity & Access.
- You'll work on foundational systems that sit at the heart of Mercor's platform, requiring strong ownership, sound architectural judgment, and a focus on security and reliability.
Responsibilities
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- As a Backend Engineer at Mercor, you will build core platform systems that make our operations secure, reliable, and scalable. This role focuses on two critical areas: Contracts and Identity & Access.
- Identity & Access: Design and maintain systems that provision and deprovision access just-in-time, ensuring Experts can securely perform a wide range of tasks across the platform.
- This work expands our product capabilities and supports the development of higher-quality foundational models.
Nice to have
- Improve security, reliability, and developer ergonomics across the systems that underpin Mercor's platform.
- Contribute to a fast-moving engineering organization where strong backend engineers may flex across teams and high-priority platform initiatives.
- Experience with identity systems or enterprise access management is a strong plus.
- Experience with identity, access control, or enterprise access management systems is a strong plus.
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
- Contracts: Build the backend infrastructure that enables flexible ways for our network of Experts to perform work and get paid.
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.
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