Tech Lead Manager, Frontier Data Products
Mercor · New York City
CHECKED 48M AGO
Applied AIonsitelead$300k–$420k
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