Mercor
Software Engineer, Robotics
San Francisco
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About the role
- Mercor pairs its operational scale with the specialized engineering that physical-world data demands.
- As a Software Engineer on Robotics, you'll sit between Mercor's data systems and our customers' infrastructure.
- Every frontier lab wants something different:
Responsibilities
- Own the reusable infrastructure behind robotics data deliveries: the processing, packaging, and delivery systems
- Work directly with customer engineering teams to scope and build bespoke schemas, custom fields, and one-off transforms where requirements are custom
- Build and operate the pipelines that move data from Mercor's systems into customer storage reliably at petabyte scale
- Partner with operations and product to turn evolving requirements into shipped data deliveries, and prototype quickly when a new data type or customer arrives
- Build automated validation techniques
- Experience building and owning high-volume data pipelines, not just contributing to them
Requirements
- Experience with large binary formats, streaming ingestion, distributed batch processing, and object storage economics
- Prior robotics experience is not required.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics/AV data formats and tooling such as MCAP, ROS, protobuf, Foxglove
- Prior work on data engines, pipelines, or delivery for multimodal data
- Multi-sensor data experience across video, depth, inertial, and audio, including calibration and synchronization
- Forward-deployed, solutions, or delivery engineering experience at a data or infrastructure company
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
- 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.
- Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively with a product team, where requirements evolve with the customers and data types
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