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team-matched
to where you can have the most impact, on one of the following: Talent platform side
– building next-generation tools that automate recruiting end-to-end, intelligently match candidates to roles, and power global hiring with seamless contracts and payments.
Applied AI/human data side
– partnering with top AI researchers from the AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to create post training datasets to improve foundational model capabilities.
What You’ll Do Design and build scalable backend APIs, services, and infrastructure.
Collaborate across the stack with product and design to ship features quickly.
Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation.
Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and retros.
Solve real-world customer problems under real-world constraints.
Contribute to core systems that power training, evaluation, and scaling for leading AI labs.
What We’re Looking For Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.).
Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Familiarity with APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
Bias toward ownership, curiosity, and asking the right questions.
Ability to break down ambiguity and ship simple solutions to complex problems.
Why Mercor Impact: Your work powers how the world’s leading AI labs train and test their models.
Learning: Get early insights into frontier model capabilities months before the market.
Growth: Work on both infrastructure and research-adjacent projects with fast paths to ownership.
Benefits Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
A $20K relocation bonus (if moving to the Bay Area)
A $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
A $1K monthly stipend for meals
Free Equinox membership
Health insurance
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Languages
- English
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