Design Engineer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 150 - 300
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
About Mercor
Mercor is at the intersection of labor markets and AI research. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge experience and context that cant be captured in code alone. Today more than 30000 experts in our network collectively earn over $2 million a day.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious fast-paced and deeply committed team. Youll work alongside researchers operators and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our new San Francisco headquarters.
About the Role
As a Design Engineer at Mercor youll sit at the intersection of design and code owning and evolving every surface across . Youll partner with design product marketing and operations to ship fast polished and high-performing experiences balancing brand usability and performance while driving projects end-to-end. From day one youll write production-grade code own projects end-to-end and balance velocity with polish usability and scalability.
What Youll Do
Collaborate with design and product teams to take concepts from wireframes to production.
Design and build intuitive performant user interfaces that scale across platforms.
Integrate APIs and data flows seamlessly with backend systems.
Write clean maintainable React/TypeScript code and contribute to frontend documentation.
Participate in design reviews code reviews and retrospectives.
Solve complex product and technical challenges under real-world constraints.
Contribute to systems that power training evaluation and scaling for leading AI labs.
What Were Looking For
Strong coding fundamentals and proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (React stack) and CSS.
Understanding of frontend architecture state management and design patterns.
Familiarity with APIs data fetching and performance optimization.
Ability to thrive in ambiguous fast-moving environments with high ownership.
Strong design sense and attention to detail.
Curiosity grit and a bias toward simple solutions to complex problems.
Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical and product tradeoffs.
Excited and curious about Mercor.
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with Sanity (CMS) & SEO basics.
Experience with visualizations or charting libraries.
Exposure to AI tools LLM-powered products or projects in this space.
Experience at top-tier tech companies or fast-scaling startups.
Contributions to open source or shipped side projects.
Background in design systems accessibility or developer tooling.
Exposure to real-time data visualization libraries or high-performance UI.
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
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Mechanical Design
- SOC
- System Design
- GD&T
- CAD
- Creo
- SolidWorks
- Mechanical Engineering
- Perl
- Autocad
- HVAC Design
- Catia
