Mercor

Mercor is seeking a Program Manager for their Quality Team to devise and implement cross-functional quality processes. This role involves developing automated, technical solutions and managing an operational team of quality control specialists to evaluate human data deliverables before customer delivery. The ideal candidate will be a data-first, results-driven leader with a proven track record of excellence in building and managing quality programs.

$120k - $200k

Mercor is a leading AI data company building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. The Deeptune lab within Mercor builds training gyms for AI agents using reinforcement learning. We are seeking a Strategic Projects Lead to own and scale the data operations that power frontier AI training. This is a high-ownership role for an individual with strong agency, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and capable of building processes that hold up under pressure. The role involves owning projects end-to-end, managing distributed teams, forecasting timelines, meeting throughput targets, and maintaining a high bar for quality. Your work will directly shape frontier models and how they are deployed.

$120k - $150k

Mercor is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Deeptune Environments team. This role involves building the core systems that power high-fidelity simulation environments for training AI agents through reinforcement learning. You will develop the APIs and tool interfaces agents interact with, the grading layer for evaluating agent success, pipelines for transforming human demonstrations into training environments, and the orchestration and sandboxing infrastructure for large-scale operation. You will collaborate closely with RL researchers, translating their ideas into functional, scalable systems, and will be responsible for the end-to-end development of these critical components.

Mercor is seeking its first GTM Engineer to join their team at the intersection of engineering, growth, and marketing. This foundational role involves designing and deploying the infrastructure for Mercor's go-to-market engine from scratch. You will integrate AI agents into customer workflows, build data and tooling for marketing and sales, and transform manual processes into reliable, production-grade systems. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical depth, exceptional business instincts, and the ability to translate go-to-market operational understanding into scalable systems. You should be comfortable with SQL, Python, building AI-powered workflows, and collaborating with marketing and revenue leaders to solve high-leverage operational problems.

$175k - $250k

Mercor is seeking a Research Engineer to work with large enterprises, capturing their data and transforming it into high-fidelity RL environments for capability evaluations and training datasets for frontier labs. The role focuses on pushing the frontier of world-building and verifier engineering. The primary goal is to automate the process of building evaluations for real work in the economy, contributing to the development of agents that capture how best people actually work and translate that expertise directly back into agents.

Mercor is seeking an Enterprise Applied AI Leader to build and scale a technical delivery team responsible for deploying Mercor's Enterprise AI platform for enterprise customers. This is a customer-facing leadership role integrated with Sales/GTM and delivery teams, focused on leading engineers in the end-to-end technical delivery of production-grade AI systems. You will work hand-in-hand with customer stakeholders to solve complex business problems and contribute to the commercial relationship, with success measured by customer outcomes and commercial impact. Your primary responsibility is enabling your engineering team to execute, while being technically credible and capable of hands-on contribution.

Mercor is seeking its first dedicated Procurement Operations hire to build and optimize the intake-to-PO infrastructure from the ground up. This high-impact, foundational role reports to the Head of Procurement and involves designing, implementing, and managing procurement processes. You will work at the intersection of Finance, Legal, Security, and Engineering, directly contributing to the company's growth by bringing order to ambiguity and scaling operations. If you are a builder who thrives on creating efficient systems and wants your work to directly influence company growth, this role is for you.

$160k - $220k

Mercor is a leading AI data company that organizes human intelligence to power the AI economy. We are building the layer between human expertise and frontier models, enabling millions of domain experts to train AI models. Mercor Enterprise provides Fortune 500 companies with infrastructure to capture and translate their best people's expertise into agents. We are a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion, seeking ambitious and committed individuals to join our team at the forefront of AI advancement. As an Economist on the Marketplace team, you will apply economic theory and rigorous empirical methods to the core decision systems that govern talent and opportunity matching on Mercor. You will analyze and shape marketplace dynamics, including matching efficiency, pricing, incentives, liquidity, and supply/demand balance. Your insights will be translated into mechanisms and metrics that directly impact fill rate, hiring speed, earnings, and revenue, making this a high-impact role at the intersection of economics, data science, and engineering.

As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will build the models and decision systems that power Mercor's hiring engine. This includes search and ranking, candidate-job matching, marketplace recommendations, personalization, and allocation decisions across a rapidly growing talent network. This is an applied ML role with direct product and revenue impact, working on problems shaped by real marketplace constraints such as sparse and delayed labels, cold start, noisy feedback, heterogeneous supply and demand, and the need to optimize across speed, quality, and conversion simultaneously.

Mercor is seeking exceptional engineering leaders to build and protect the integrity of its AI data ecosystem. This role focuses on developing fraud, risk, and compliance systems to ensure the trustworthiness of a global expert marketplace at scale. You will lead engineering efforts in fraud detection, platform integrity, and compliance infrastructure, building systems that are central to the AI ecosystem and safeguard the trust required for expert knowledge to be usable. This is an opportunity to work on one of Mercor's most critical business challenges, creating novel solutions for an AI-native expert marketplace.

Mercor is seeking Engineering Managers to lead teams within its Applied AI organization. Applied AI focuses on building systems that enhance model quality, including evaluation infrastructure, annotation products, and multimodal capabilities. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with product and research departments, and contribute to defining Mercor's position at the forefront of AI. You will also forge partnerships with leading AI labs and directly influence the improvement of frontier models through data, evaluation, and systems. This position demands a high degree of ownership and the ability to operate at a strategic level, setting direction, driving results, and remaining technically engaged while leading.

Mercor is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to build and enhance the ML systems powering their Frontier Data Products. This role is crucial for scoring, validating, and improving complex work products where correctness is nuanced and labels are imperfect. You will design evaluation frameworks for ambiguous tasks, build feedback loops to improve models, and own production ML behavior end-to-end, considering tradeoffs in precision, recall, latency, and cost. This is an applied ML product engineering role with real production constraints, focusing on shipping ML systems that directly impact product and business metrics.

Mercor is seeking an Enterprise AI Associate to join their team. This role operates at the intersection of customer engagement, product management, and go-to-market operations, focusing on helping Mercor's largest enterprise clients successfully deploy and scale AI solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a structured, analytical mindset, thrives on high agency, moves quickly, and takes ownership of ambiguous problem statements. You will be embedded in customer engagements, working with senior leaders to understand client AI priorities and pain points, translating these needs into delivery plans, and contributing to the refinement of offerings, brand positioning, and relaying customer feedback to engineering.

As a Software Engineer on Applied AI, you will build, deploy, and operate systems that bridge frontier AI research and data delivery. This is a high-ownership, deeply technical role where you will tackle ill-defined problems, prototype rapidly with researchers and customers, and transition systems from early experiments to reliable, scalable production. You will manage projects end-to-end, including requirements gathering, creating data pipelines, and enhancing model-adjacent infrastructure, while collaborating with frontier AI labs and internal teams to deliver impactful applied AI solutions.

Mercor is seeking its first Agentic Finance Engineer to join their team. This foundational role sits at the intersection of finance, data engineering, and applied AI, responsible for building and deploying the modern data and automation stack from the ground up. You will architect scalable financial data models, integrate AI agents into real workflows, and transform manual, spreadsheet-driven processes into reliable, production-grade systems. The ideal candidate possesses deep finance domain knowledge, understanding core financial operations, and has the technical fluency to translate this into automated systems. You should be comfortable with both SQL and communicating with executive leadership, thriving in a zero-to-one building environment.

$175k - $250k

Mercor is seeking a Security Engineer to own cloud and infrastructure security at a company where tenant isolation is a critical enterprise requirement. You will architect multi-account AWS isolation, harden Kubernetes clusters, deploy cloud security posture management, and build the infrastructure that lets Mercor serve enterprise clients who demand the highest security bar. This role involves using AI heavily in security work, including building alongside AI code-gen tools, using LLMs to accelerate infrastructure review and policy authoring, and automating repetitive tasks. If you prefer writing Terraform modules over filling out spreadsheets, you will fit in here.

Mercor is a leading AI data company that organizes human intelligence to power the AI economy. As a Research Engineer, you will work at the intersection of engineering and applied AI research, contributing directly to post-training, RLVR, synthetic data generation, and large-scale evaluation workflows that impact frontier language models. Your work will be instrumental in training LLMs for tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning in production environments. You will shape rewards, run experiments, build scalable systems, and design/evaluate datasets and augmentation pipelines to enhance model performance and push the boundaries of LLM learning.

Mercor is seeking a Software Engineer for their Automations team to build autonomous systems that manage Mercor's internal operations and will eventually scale to serve client companies. This role involves designing and shipping production agents that take real-world actions, such as scheduling interventions, executing playbooks, and managing talent pipelines. You will own systems end-to-end, from server design to evaluation frameworks, collaborating with operators and platform engineers to transform manual workflows into reliable, autonomous processes. The role requires a strong focus on correctness, rollback, observability, and trust in systems that handle sensitive data like payments, contracts, and livelihoods. This is a greenfield opportunity in agentic infrastructure with immediate real-world impact.

Mercor is seeking a Research Program Manager to play a central role in coordinating the development, release, and communication of AI benchmarks and evaluation systems. This hands-on role requires strong attention to detail, high-intensity problem-solving, and a passion for building scalable processes that support cutting-edge AI research. You will work across research, operations, and marketing to ensure evaluations are executed rigorously, results are shared with the broader AI community, and new benchmarks launch smoothly.

$120k - $200k

Mercor is seeking a strong engineer to build scalable agentic products. You will work on a variety of teams focused on automating operational work, developing evaluation systems for RL environments, and building the infrastructure for producing frontier data. This role involves end-to-end ownership of agentic features, from initial scoping and design through implementation, launch, and iteration. You will collaborate with researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of AI advancement, contributing to the development of systems that are redefining society.