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Engineering Manager, Applied AI

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

About the role

Engineering Manager role leading teams within Mercor's Applied AI organization to build and scale evaluation infrastructure, annotation products, and emerging multimodal capabilities, partnering with product, research, and external AI labs to improve model quality.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow a team of 6–10 engineers
  • Coach and develop high-potential engineers
  • Establish strong ownership, culture, and execution standards
  • Shape the team: define hiring processes, establish engineering practices, and scale a high-performing team from the ground up
  • Drive insights and methodology behind evaluation systems that benchmark and improve model performance
  • Lead development while driving improvements in data quality, operational efficiency, system stability, and scalability
  • Scale products that generate high-quality training data and improve human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Lead system design for complex AI systems
  • Stay close to the technical work and guide engineers through ambiguous problems
  • Translate high-level AI goals into clear engineering roadmaps and execution plans
  • Partner with product, research, operations, and external AI labs
  • Work across systems, data insights, and custom partnerships to drive model quality
  • Introduce lightweight processes as the organization scales
  • Hire and develop strong engineering talent
  • Help define engineering management at Mercor

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree such as Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Statistics
  • 6–10 years in engineering; 2–3+ years managing teams
  • Strong background in building scalable systems
  • Ability to lead in ambiguous environments with sound technical judgment
  • Proven ability to coach engineers and drive execution
  • Strong ownership mindset with pragmatic decision-making

Benefits

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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