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Software Engineer, Identity

Mercor · San Francisco

CHECKED 10M AGO

Applied AIonsite$160k–$325k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build authorization systems making billions of decisions weekly at global scale.
  • Own identity orchestration across thousands of isolated client workspaces.
  • Turn a morning project brief into a fully staffed, secure workspace by afternoon.

What they offer

  • Generous equity vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15K relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus near office
  • $1,500/month meals stipend
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200/month laundry reimbursement
  • $200/month wellness reimbursement
  • Health, dental and vision insurance

Ideal candidate

A security-minded product engineer who thrives on ownership and ambiguity, excited by unprecedented scale and high-stakes access problems. You care about correctness, ship fast, and adapt quickly to unique challenges.

Requirements

  • Comfort with data modeling under consistency constraints, including stale reads and eventual consistency
  • Experience pushing third-party platforms past limits including rate limits, quotas and reconciliation
  • Security-minded thinking about how systems break and consequences
  • Adaptability and intellectual flexibility for unique challenges
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
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