Engineering Manager, Fraud & Compliance

About the Company

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.

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 and business impact
• Recruit exceptional engineers and raise the talent bar across the organization
• Drive engineering excellence, velocity, and operational rigor in an adversarial, fast-moving domain

Requirements

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years delivering infrastructure for fraud, trust & safety, risk, identity, payments, or abuse prevention
• 2+ years working with machine learning, AI systems, decision engines, or risk-scoring platforms

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