Tech Lead, Applied AI - Search
Mercor · San Francisco
Applied AIonsiteLead$350k–$600k
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
- No remote
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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