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Software Engineering Expert

Mercor

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Professional experience building and shipping software.
  • Clear written communication skills.
  • Comfort with ambiguous tasks and willingness to flag unclear instructions.
  • Experience with React, TypeScript, Next.js, Java, Go, Node.js, Android, iOS.

Responsibilities

  • Write engineering problems from systems you have shipped, including requirements, constraints, and failure modes.
  • Grade model-written code and design for edge case handling, complexity justification, and test effectiveness.
  • Flag where a model's code passes review but would fail in production due to concurrency, scale, error handling, or operational costs.
  • Collaborate with AI research teams to enhance training data quality and downstream performance.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Quality Assurance
  • Collaboration
  • Adaptability

About the company

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Mercor

Job Boards & Talent Marketplaces

Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: 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 $2 million a day.

Company details

IndustryJob Boards & Talent Marketplaces
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Software Engineering Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$150/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Write engineering problems from systems you have shipped, including requirements, constraints, and failure modes.
  • Grade model-written code and design for edge case handling, complexity justification, and test effectiveness.
  • Flag where a model's code passes review but would fail in production due to concurrency, scale, error handling, or operational costs.
  • Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
  • Collaborate with AI research teams to enhance training data quality and downstream performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Professional experience building and shipping software.
  • Clear written communication skills.
  • Comfort with ambiguous tasks and willingness to flag unclear instructions.

Preferred

  • Experience with React, TypeScript, Next.js, Java, Go, Node.js, Android, iOS.
  • Skills in DevOps, platform engineering, systems and performance engineering, QA, automation, and security engineering.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

Resources & Support

  • For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
  • For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

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