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Mercor · San Francisco

Applied AIonsiteLead$350k–$600k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build evaluation systems that turn human expertise into signal labs train on.
  • Lead pipelines converting interviews and demos into rubrics and training data.
  • Push verifiable rewards into subjective, agentic and multimodal evaluation work.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

An engineering leader who thrives in ambiguity, takes high ownership, and coaches high-potential teams to execute. You stay hands-on while setting direction and care deeply about improving frontier model quality.

Requirements

  • 6-10 years in engineering with 2-3+ years leading teams
  • Strong background in building scalable systems
  • Comfort with core ML/LLM concepts including post-training, evaluation metrics, and reward modeling
  • Ability to lead in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with sound technical judgment
  • Proven ability to coach engineers and drive execution
  • Strong ownership mindset with pragmatic decision-making
remote policy
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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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