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About Mercor
Mercor is training models that predict how well someone will perform on a job better than a human can. We use our platform to source vet and onboard expert contractors who help train AI models in a wide variety of domains. Our technology is so effective its used by all of the top 5 AI labs.
We scaled from $1-500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months making us the fastest growing company in the world. Our growth is accelerating. We averaged 11% week over week growth in July 18% WoW growth in August and 19% WoW growth in September. The team is small and we remain profitable because we cant hire great people as quickly as revenue is growing.
What youll do
In your first year youll ship analyses and experiments that move core product metrics match quality time-to-hire candidate experience and revenue. Youll:
Define north-star and feature-level metrics for our ranking interview analytics and payouts systems.
Design/run A/B tests and quasi-experiments; turn results into product decisions the same week.
Build source-of-truth dashboards and lightweight data models so teams can self-serve answers.
Instrument events with engineers; improve data quality and latency from ingestion to insight.
Prototype quick models (from baselines to gradient boosting) to improve matching and scoring.
Help evaluate LLM-powered agents: design rubrics human-in-the-loop studies and guardrail canaries.
Youll thrive here if
You have solid fundamentals (statistics SQL Python) and projects youre proud to demo. You iterate fast frame the question test and ship in day and care as much about clarity of communication as you do about p-values. Curiosity about LLM evaluation retrieval and ranking is a bonus; youll learn alongside folks whove shipped at Jane Street Citadel Databricks and Stripe.
Qualifications
02 years in data science/analytics or similar; BS/BA in a quantitative field (or equivalent work).
Strong SQL; Python for analysis; comfort with experiment design and causal thinking.
Communicates crisply with engineers PMs and leadership; turns analysis into action.
Nice-to-haves: dbt dashboarding (Hex/Mode/Looker) marketplace or search/recommendation metrics LLM/agent evaluation.
Benefits
Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
A $20K relocation bonus (if moving to the Bay Area)
A $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
A $1K monthly stipend for meals
Free Equinox membership
Health insurance
Employment Type
Full-Time
