Cloud Computing Architect AI Integration

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: Cloud Computing Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $1750$2150/task
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace using HashiCorp Terraform Datadog Splunk GitHub Actions and Okta. Reflect real-world architecture docs runbooks and incident post-mortems.
• Design multi-step tasks that challenge frontier AI agents by navigating multiple apps and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cloud-computing experts to design environments and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for cloud-computing agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work informs how leading labs train and evaluate AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3 years of full-time experience at a major hyperscaler (AWS Azure GCP Oracle Cloud) a cloud-data platform (Snowflake Databricks) or a Fortune 500 platform/infrastructure team.
• Background in cloud architecture site reliability engineering platform engineering DevOps/DevSecOps or cloud FinOps.
• Day-to-day use of HashiCorp Terraform Pulumi Splunk Datadog GitHub Actions CircleCI and Okta/Microsoft Entra ID.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Preferred

• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Azure Solutions Architect GCP Professional Cloud Architect CKA/CKAD.

Compensation & Legal

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality ($1750$2150 per completed task subject to change as the project evolves).
• Performance Bonus: Top performers receive a weekly bonus incentive on top of their per task rate.
• Hourly Opportunity: Top performers may transition to an hourly compensation model based on sustained quality and throughput.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

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

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