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Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products

Mercor · New York City

CHECKED 10M AGO

Applied AIonsite$160k–$500k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build durable orchestration for multi-day jobs mixing AI inference and expert review.
  • Own core infrastructure between customer requests and the outputs that ship.
  • Shape architecture of young, strategically central product area from the ground up.

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-minded systems thinker who thrives in ambiguity, obsesses over debuggability and reliability, and wants to move fast while building infrastructure with direct 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 distributed systems toolkit: async workflows, queues, idempotency, retries, long-running jobs
  • Ability to turn ambiguous product, operational, and ML constraints into clean, debuggable systems
  • Comfort working in Python on AWS with Postgres; Temporal or similar workflow engines 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
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