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: Full-Stack Software Engineer
Type: Contract
Compensation: $50–$80/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Write precise product specifications for application development and automatic grading.
- Build complete reference implementations that meet all written criteria.
- Author browser-driven acceptance criteria to verify user-visible behavior.
- Calibrate task difficulty using frontier models to achieve target performance.
- Verify tasks fail cleanly against empty repositories to ensure genuine feature development.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 3+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience.
- Fluency in at least one modern frontend framework and one backend runtime.
- Experience with auth , permissions , payment flows , and file upload in production.
- Ability to specify systems precisely in writing.
- Comfort with Docker , Git , and command-line tooling.
Preferred
- Experience building evaluations, benchmarks, or test suites for AI systems .
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
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- For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.