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Engineering Manager, Fraud & Compliance

Mercor· Engineering
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San Francisco, New York City$250k - $400kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineering leadership role focused on fraud detection, platform integrity, and compliance infrastructure to protect Mercor’s global expert marketplace.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers responsible for fraud detection, identity verification, abuse prevention, and platform integrity
  • Define and execute Mercor's fraud and compliance engineering roadmap in partnership with product, operations, and company leadership
  • Build systems that generate fraud signals, evaluate risk, make automated decisions, and continuously improve through human review and feedback loops
  • Drive the development of AI-powered detection systems, including LLM-based decision engines, scoring models, and review workflows
  • Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure detection performance, confidence calibration, false positive/negative tradeoffs, and business impact
  • Recruit exceptional engineers and raise the talent bar across the organization
  • Partner closely with product, operations, and company leadership
  • Drive engineering excellence, velocity, and operational rigor in an adversarial, fast-moving domain

Qualifications

  • Educational Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree such as Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Statistics
  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams
  • Experience leading teams through periods of significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change, with clear examples of the impact you've personally driven

Skills

Required:Backend software engineeringEngineering leadership/management

Benefits

  • Generous equity, vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15K relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of the office)
  • $1,500/month meals stipend
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200/month laundry reimbursement
  • $200/month personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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