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Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering

Mercor· Engineering
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San Francisco$160k - $500kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer on Applied AI building, deploying, and operating systems between frontier AI research and data delivery, owning end-to-end projects from requirements to production.

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with frontier AI labs to understand their data, post-training, and evaluation needs
  • Build and operate scalable data pipelines for post-training workflows and model evaluations
  • Design and build scalable systems for synthetic data generation and data quality, and work directly with customers to understand requirements and develop technical solutions
  • Prototype new data types, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks
  • Lead technical discussions with customers

Qualifications

  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
  • Experience with model training and inference
  • Strong grounding in statistical analysis and experimental design for measuring model performance and improvements
  • Familiarity with evaluation methods for large language models
  • Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringModel training and inferenceStatistical analysis and experimental design

Benefits

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K proximity 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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