Software Engineer, New Graduate
Software Engineer, New Graduate
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USD 130000 - 500000
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Job Description
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 $1500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months making us the fastest growing company in the world. Our growth is accelerating: 11% week-over-week in July 18% in August and 19% in September. The team is small profitable and growing as fast as we can hire exceptional people.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer at Mercor youll join a small product-driven engineering team building modern backend systems that power critical workflows for some of the most advanced AI companies in the world. Youll own projects end-to-end designing building and shipping production systems that directly impact customers. From day one youll write production-grade code reason about systems holistically and make decisions that tie directly to business outcomes. Youll work closely with product and design moving fast while upholding a high bar for code quality scalability and simplicity.
At the end of the process youll be team-matched to where you can have the most impact on one of the following:
Talent platform side building next-generation tools that automate recruiting end-to-end intelligently match candidates to roles and power global hiring with seamless contracts and payments.
Applied AI/human data side partnering with top AI researchers from the AI labs like OpenAI Anthropic and Google to create post training datasets to improve foundational model capabilities.
What Youll Do
Design and build scalable backend APIs services and infrastructure.
Collaborate across the stack with product and design to ship features quickly.
Write clean maintainable code and contribute to documentation.
Participate in code reviews technical design discussions and retros.
Solve real-world customer problems under real-world constraints.
Contribute to core systems that power training evaluation and scaling for leading AI labs.
What Were Looking For
Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python Go Rust etc.).
Understanding of data structures algorithms and distributed systems.
Familiarity with APIs SQL/NoSQL databases and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
Bias toward ownership curiosity and asking the right questions.
Ability to break down ambiguity and ship simple solutions to complex problems.
Why Mercor
Impact: Your work powers how the worlds leading AI labs train and test their models.
Learning: Get early insights into frontier model capabilities months before the market.
Growth: Work on both infrastructure and research-adjacent projects with fast paths to ownership.
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
