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Tech Lead Manager, Frontier Data Products

Mercor · New York City

CHECKED 48M AGO

Applied AIonsitelead$300k–$420k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead systems turning images, video, audio and docs into trusted AI data products.
  • Build traceable quality systems blending automated checks with expert review.
  • Shape multimodal product architecture and the engineering team building it.

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

Player-coach engineering leader who thrives on ambiguous zero-to-one products and cares deeply about quality, reliability and traceability at scale. You hire and coach high-bar teams while staying hands-on in production code.

Requirements

  • Experience managing a strong engineering team while remaining hands-on technical leader
  • Deep experience designing and operating production backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems
  • Experience with large unstructured data, async processing, metadata and versioning, or compute-heavy workflows
  • Relevant experience in multimedia infrastructure, computer-vision data, video or audio processing, ML platforms, annotation systems, or human-in-the-loop products
  • Strong judgment about platform boundaries across modalities
  • Track record taking ambiguous zero-to-one products through architecture, launch and production operation
  • Evidence of recruiting, coaching and retaining excellent engineers
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
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