Mercor
Software Engineer, Applied AI
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 92 days ago
PythonGoRustData EngineeringLLMsStatisticsResearchExperimental DesignProblem Solving
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"
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
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
- 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.
- 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
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
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