Software Engineer

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

• Build backend services that power candidate-job matching, routing, and marketplace workflows
• Develop APIs and internal systems for search, eligibility, scoring, allocation, and fulfillment
• Design data models and system abstractions for a rapidly evolving labor marketplace
• Build infrastructure for real-time and asynchronous decisioning at high volume
• Develop operational systems and tooling to keep product-critical workflows reliable and observable
• Design matching and allocation infrastructure that balance speed, quality, and fill rate
• Develop workflow engines for onboarding, vetting, routing, and placement

Requirements

• Track record of building and operating reliable backend systems in production
• Strong judgment in system design, performance, reliability, and data modeling
• Comfort working on high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows
• Ability to translate product and marketplace requirements into clean technical systems
• High engineering standards and a bias toward simple, durable abstractions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with search, recommendation, matching, scheduling, or marketplace systems
• Experience supporting ML-powered products or integrating model inference into production systems
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture, queues, caching, and observability tooling

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