Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products
Mercor · New York City
CHECKED 10M AGO
Applied AIonsite$160k–$500k
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