Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering
Mercor · San Francisco
CHECKED 22H AGO
Applied AIonsite$160k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build systems sitting directly between frontier AI research and data delivery.
- Partner with leading AI labs to accelerate cutting-edge post-training research.
- Prototype new data types, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks end-to-end.
What they offer
- Bi-annual performance bonus
- Equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k relocation bonus
- $10k proximity bonus
- $1.5k monthly meals stipend
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly wellness reimbursement
- Health, dental and vision insurance
Ideal candidate
Entrepreneurial engineer who thrives on ownership and ambiguity, blending rigorous building with customer-facing problem solving to ship high-impact applied AI with frontier labs.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
- Experience with model training and inference
- Strong grounding in statistical analysis and experimental design for measuring model performance
- Familiarity with evaluation methods for large language models
- Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively
- 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