Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering (NYC)
Mercor · New York City
CHECKED 22H AGO
Applied AIonsite$160k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build and operate systems connecting frontier AI research to data delivery.
- Build scalable pipelines for post-training, synthetic data and evaluations.
- Prototype new data types, benchmarks and evaluation frameworks.
What they offer
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Up to $15k relocation bonus
- $10k proximity bonus 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 and vision insurance
Ideal candidate
Entrepreneurial, high-ownership engineer who thrives in ambiguity and loves blending deep technical building with customer-facing problem solving to advance frontier AI research.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in Python, Go, Rust or similar
- Experience with model training and inference
- Grounding in statistical analysis and experimental design for model performance
- Familiarity with evaluation methods for large language models
- Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively
- remote policy
- In-person five 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