Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll 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.
What This Person Owns
The infrastructure every data-driven team at Mercor runs on: Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, and Hex. You own how data is organized, who can access what, what it costs to run, and how reliably it operates. This is a foundational hire on a new Data Platform team, you'll help set the standards other engineers build against.
What They Do Day-to-Day
- Bring structure and clear ownership to how data is organized in Snowflake across projects and teams
- Design narrow, role-based access controls, and partner with automation so access is granted and revoked as people join, change teams, or leave
- Extend row access policies and PII masking across all sensitive datasets
- Migrate data from a variety of vendor and internal sources into properly owned, governed homes
- Own Fivetran connector health and cost, Airflow/Astronomer pipeline reliability and on-call, and Hex governance across company-wide dashboards
- Monitor and right-size Snowflake warehouse spend
- Help build CDC/streaming ingestion and other internal data platform tooling
What We're Looking For
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake administration: roles, grants, warehouses, cost/performance tuning
- Experience designing data access and governance models (RBAC, row-level security, PII) at scale
- Comfort owning vendor tooling end to end (Fivetran, Airflow/Astronomer, or similar), including on-call
- Track record migrating or re-architecting live production data systems without breaking dependent teams
- Strong SQL and Python, with infrastructure fluency to make judgment calls, not just execute a spec
- Experience owning CDC/streaming pipelines in production (Debezium, Kafka, Snowpipe Streaming or similar), including reasoning about delivery semantics, partitioning, and safe cutovers between systems.
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
Skills Required
- Hands-on experience administering Snowflake, including roles, grants, warehouses, and cost or performance tuning
- Experience designing data access and governance models, including RBAC, row-level security, and PII controls, at scale
- Experience owning vendor tooling such as Fivetran, Airflow, or Astronomer end to end, including on-call responsibilities
- Track record migrating or re-architecting live production data systems without disrupting dependent teams
- Strong SQL and Python skills with infrastructure fluency
- Production experience owning CDC or streaming pipelines, including Debezium, Kafka, Snowpipe Streaming, or similar technologies
- Understanding of delivery semantics, partitioning, and safe cutovers between systems
Mercor Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mercor and has not been reviewed or approved by Mercor.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles, with clear hourly ranges and an hourly/pay‑per‑task mix designed to align rates with expertise. The structure emphasizes transparent, appropriate pay levels and guarantees payment for legitimate logged time.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Payments are processed on a predictable weekly cadence via Stripe/Wise, and some tracks offer additional weekly bonus incentives for top performers. This combination of regular payouts and performance bonuses supports dependable earnings when projects are active.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Select full‑time roles include generous equity grants alongside cash perks such as relocation and housing bonuses. These elements increase total compensation for those positions.
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