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Tech Lead Manager, Frontier Data Products

Mercor· Engineering
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New York City$300k - $420kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Frontier Data Products team builds multimodal data products (image, video, audio, documents, and mixed-media) and the Tech Lead Manager leads the team technically and people-wise to turn complex multimodal inputs into reliable, customer-ready data products at scale. The role blends hands-on coding, architecture decisions, and people management in a product-engineering leadership capacity.

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical and product strategy for Mercor’s multimodal data products.
  • Design systems that support the full lifecycle of image, video, audio, document, and mixed-media data—from initial inputs through processing, review, validation, versioning, and delivery.
  • Create reusable abstractions across modalities while preserving the differences that matter for quality, performance, and customer requirements.
  • Build quality systems that combine automated evaluation, model-assisted checks, expert review, sampling, and adjudication.
  • Ensure that every output is traceable: what produced it, what changed, how it was evaluated, and why it was accepted.
  • Own the reliability, performance, and cost of storage-heavy, compute-intensive, long-running workflows.
  • Stay hands-on by writing production code, leading design reviews, and directly contributing to the team’s most consequential technical work.
  • Manage and develop engineers through clear expectations, frequent feedback, thoughtful delegation, and meaningful ownership.
  • Partner with product, ML, operations, and customer-facing teams to turn new customer needs into durable product capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
  • Recruit and onboard engineers who raise the team’s technical and execution bar.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree such as Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Statistics
  • 1+ year of experience managing a strong engineering team while remaining an effective, hands-on technical leader.
  • 3+ years of deep experience designing and operating production backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems.
  • Experience working with large unstructured data, asynchronous processing, metadata and versioning, or compute-heavy workflows.

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipProduction software designMultimodal data pipelines

Benefits

  • 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
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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