AI Developer Trace Task Auditor

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: AI Developer Trace Task Auditor
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70$90/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality and correctness of AI-assisted software-development traces to enhance model training and evaluation.
• Assess end-to-end coding sessions produced with AI-assisted developer tools for correctness workflow soundness and reasoning.
• Provide clear rubric-based written feedback to improve AI model outputs.
• Review complex coding trajectories for alignment with best practices and correctness.
• Collaborate with AI research teams to ensure consistency and relevance in training data.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while enhancing AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3 years professional software development.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding tools and agentic/spec-driven workflows (Cursor GitHub Copilot Claude Code or similar).
• Strong code-reading and debugging skills across full-stack or backend systems.
• Ability to evaluate multi-step coding trajectories for correctness and best practice.

Preferred

• Experience with Kiro or Amazon CodeCatalyst.
• Prior work evaluating or grading AI-generated code.
• Contributions to developer tooling.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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