Role Description

As an Applied AI Engineer at Mercor, you’ll work at the intersection of machine learning research, product engineering, and customer success.

• Refine human datasets and transform them into model-ready signals
• Translate real-world insights into product and infrastructure features that improve the platform
• Run tight feedback loops across the Ops and Engineering teams to maximize client value
• Build tooling and prototypes

Qualifications

• Previous founding or startup experience
• Fluency in React, Next.js, and Python
• Experience designing schemas for SQL and NoSQL databases, Airflow or similar orchestration ETL tools
• Experience deploying LLMs or other models in production, including evaluation pipelines
• Experience with Systems Integration across recruitment systems, payments systems, CRMs and data warehouses
• Interest in evals, benchmarks and annotation tooling
• Attention to detail and eagerness to learn

Compensation

• Base cash comp from $40K-$100K
• Performance bonuses up to 40% of base comp
• $1k referral bonuses available