Engineering Manager, Core Engineering

About Mercor

Mercors mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. 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 $3 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 San Francisco NYC or London offices.

Were building the infrastructure that powers one of the worlds largest expert networks and delivers expert data at unprecedented scale.

Were looking for exceptional engineering leaders to help us scale both our expert marketplace and the underlying platform infrastructure that powers it.

We value builders who have repeatedly chosen difficult problems thrived in environments with high expectations and can point to concrete examples where their leadership materially changed the trajectory of a team product or company.

Why This Role

Were still early.

The problems are genuinely hard largely unsolved and increasingly important to the future of AI. Youll have a direct hand in shaping both the systems we build and the teams that build them.

Depending on your background you may lead engineering efforts focused on:

• Marketplace growth discovery ranking recommendations search matching and AI-powered experiences that connect experts with opportunities

• Platform infrastructure including payments contracting operational systems reliability scalability and the core foundations that enable Mercor to operate globally

In either case youll be responsible for building products and systems that sit at the center of the AI ecosystem and help the worlds leading AI organizations access expert knowledge at scale.

What Youll Do

• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams

• Recruit exceptional engineers and raise the talent bar across the organization

• Define technical strategy and execute against ambitious business goals

• Partner closely with product operations and company leadership

• Build highly scalable systems that support a rapidly growing global expert network

• Drive engineering excellence velocity and operational rigor

What Were Looking For

• 5 years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale

• 3 years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams

• A demonstrated track record of exceptional performance and sustained career progression in high-growth high-talent-density environments

• Experience leading teams and organizations through periods of significant scale ambiguity or rapid change with clear examples of the impact youve personally driven

Why Mercor

The next generation of AI will be built on expert knowledge.

Mercor sits at the center of that transformation connecting the worlds expertise with the worlds most advanced AI systems. This is an opportunity to join early work on problems that dont yet have established playbooks and help build the infrastructure powering the future of AI.

Benefits

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure

• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years

• Up to $15k Relocation bonus

• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)

• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals

• Free Equinox membership

• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement

• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement

• Health Dental Vision insurance

Required Experience:

Manager