Software Engineer, Search Systems - Code Data
Mercor · San Francisco
CHECKED 22H AGO
Applied AIonsite$250k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own end-to-end code search and retrieval powering frontier coding models.
- Solve similar-code retrieval capturing structure, semantics, and intent.
- Translate natural-language questions into precise search over code tasks.
What they offer
- Equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15K relocation bonus for Bay Area moves
- $10K housing bonus within 0.5 miles of office
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- Health insurance
Ideal candidate
A hands-on technical leader who loves hard retrieval problems and high ownership. You mentor others, ship pragmatically, and get excited about agentic development and frontier AI.
Requirements
- Excellent systems fundamentals in distributed systems, data modeling, and API design at scale
- Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship growing junior and senior engineers
- Genuine excitement for agentic development and fluency with AI dev tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot
- Excellent communication making complex tradeoffs clear to engineers and leadership
- High ownership, pragmatism, and bias toward shipping with strong opinions, loosely held
- 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