Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products
Mercor · San Francisco
CHECKED 47M AGO
Applied AIonsite$160k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build orchestration for long-running jobs interleaving models and expert review.
- Shape core infra directly between customer requests and shipped outputs.
- Decide architecture for durable state machines over non-deterministic inputs.
What they offer
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus if 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
Backend systems thinker who obsesses over debuggability and durable state, moves fast in ambiguity, and wants ownership from design to production with visible customer impact.
Requirements
- Production backend experience with strong opinions about what ages well
- Sharp instincts for system design, service boundaries, and where to put complexity
- Fluency with async workflows, queues, idempotency, retries, and long-running jobs
- Ability to turn ambiguous product, operational, and ML constraints into clean, debuggable systems
- Comfort working in Python on AWS with Postgres
- Experience with Temporal or similar workflow engines is a plus
- 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