Mercor
Systems Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr
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About the Job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position
Systems Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type
Contract
Compensation
$85/hour $400 per accepted task (compensation tied to accepted work)
Location
Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks.
- Review model-generated code, architecture decisions, and systems implementations.
- Identify bugs, edge cases, performance bottlenecks, and failure modes.
- Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
- Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic systems engineering scenarios.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
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Requirements
Must-Have
- 2+ years of professional systems engineering experience.
- Experience with:
- Distributed systems
- Networking
- Operating systems
- Storage systems
- Infrastructure software
- Database internals
- Regular use of AI coding agents (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI or similar).
- Ability to evaluate model-generated systems designs and implementations.
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Preferred
- Experience building highly scalable and performance-critical systems.
Application Process (Takes ~20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- Complete an AI interview (based on resume)
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For interview process/platform details: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For support: support@mercor.com
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