Software Engineer, New Graduate

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