Mercor
Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering (NYC)
New York City
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About the role
- This is a high-ownership, deeply technical role.
- You'll work through ill-defined problems, prototype quickly with researchers and customers, and take systems from early experiments to reliable, scalable production.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with frontier AI labs to understand their data, post-training, and evaluation needs
- Build and operate scalable data pipelines for post-training workflows and model evaluations
- Direct frontier exposure. You'll work closely with researchers at leading AI labs, building infrastructure that directly accelerates cutting-edge research.
- Coding + customer work. This role blends deep technical execution with customer interaction. Engineers who enjoy both building and communicating tend to thrive.
- "Building the plane while flying it"
- On the Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering team, you'll build, deploy, and operate systems that sit directly between frontier AI research and data delivery.
- You'll own projects end-to-end:
Requirements
- Experience with model training and inference
- Familiarity with evaluation methods for large language models
- Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively
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
- 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.
- Design and build scalable systems for synthetic data generation and data quality, and work directly with customers to understand requirements and develop technical solutions
- Lead technical discussions with customers
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