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AI Infrastructure Engineer

Mercor · San Francisco

Applied AIonsitesenior$200k–$400k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build and run the GPU platform powering frontier AI training and inference.
  • Stand up a multi-cloud accelerator fleet so researchers never think about placement.
  • Build self-healing fleet health checks and cost attribution for capacity planning.

What they offer

  • 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 office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Ideal candidate

Infrastructure owner with 5+ years running production distributed systems who thrives with end-to-end ownership. You care about reliability, utilization, and empowering researchers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years building and operating production distributed systems or ML infrastructure
  • Write production-quality Python plus Go or C++, and fluent in shell scripting
  • Deep hands-on Kubernetes and container experience, plus working knowledge of Slurm or another HPC resource manager
  • Run GPU workloads at scale, including scheduling, orchestration and troubleshooting
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch Distributed, Ray, vLLM or Megatron-LM
  • Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider
  • Know observability tools like DataDog, Prometheus, PromQL and Grafana, and comfortable on-call for critical systems
  • Own projects end to end with little direction
remote policy
in-person 5 days a week

Lab profile

About Mercor

AI data company organizing human expertise to train frontier models for the AI economy.

What they build

  • APEX benchmark family
  • Mercor Enterprise
  • Human expertise training data platform

Known for

  • Massive domain-expert network
  • Frontier model training infrastructure
  • Real-world professional work evaluation

Key facts

  • Millions of domain experts on platform
  • Pays over $4M per day to experts
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