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Build and ship production backend systems supporting talent platforms and applied AI data workflows. Interns own projects end-to-end, collaborate with product, design, researchers, and AI companies, and develop scalable systems that impact customers. Responsibilities include writing production-grade code, designing systems, working with APIs and databases, and contributing to AI-focused products in a fast-paced, in-person environment.

Analyze data affecting ranking, hiring efficiency, candidate experience, and revenue. Design experiments, build dashboards and data models, improve data quality, prototype matching and scoring models, and evaluate LLM-powered systems through rubrics and human-in-the-loop studies. Collaborate with engineering, product, and leadership to translate rigorous analysis into product decisions.

Mercor is offering $5 million in grants for independent researchers, academics, PhD students, and small teams conducting frontier AI safety research. Focus areas include misalignment, sandbox escape, evaluation awareness, interpretability, oversight and control, and red-teaming. Funding may support researcher time, API credits, and conference attendance. Applicants should submit a focused expression of interest describing their team, background, research proposal, outputs, impact, timelines, and resource needs.

Own recruiting operations for engineering hiring, including scheduling, ATS management, interview-loop coordination, funnel analytics, process improvement, candidate experience, and onboarding logistics. Partner with technical recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers, and leadership to manage requisitions, identify bottlenecks, improve workflows, maintain dashboards, and support high-velocity hiring.

Own Mercor’s data platform infrastructure across Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, Astronomer, and Hex. Responsibilities include data organization, role-based access control, row-level security, PII masking, governed migrations, pipeline reliability, on-call support, dashboard governance, warehouse cost optimization, and CDC or streaming ingestion. The role also establishes platform standards and builds internal tooling for a new Data Platform team.

Own Mercor’s security GRC and compliance programs, including continuous SOC 2 monitoring, ISO 27001 certification, customer audits, third-party risk, policy lifecycle management, controls-as-code, data-handling procedures, and enterprise security questionnaires. Build the company’s first GRC function, automate evidence collection and questionnaire responses, manage auditor and customer relationships, and support frameworks such as HIPAA, FedRAMP, and EU AI Act conformity.

Lead the technical strategy and development of multimodal data products spanning image, video, audio, documents, processing, review, validation, versioning, and delivery. Design reliable, traceable, cost-efficient distributed systems, remain hands-on with production code, and manage engineering staff through hiring, coaching, delegation, and performance development. Partner with product, ML, operations, and customer teams to build reusable capabilities and operate complex workflows at scale.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll design and maintain cloud infrastructure, build automation workflows, manage CI/CD pipelines, and improve system reliability while collaborating with product and research teams.

Own IT operations reliability, security, and scalability across identity, endpoint, and infrastructure systems. Resolve Tier 2/3 incidents, troubleshoot Apple devices and connected systems, perform root-cause analysis, automate recurring solutions, maintain documentation, manage access and compliance controls, lead operational projects, communicate during incidents, mentor team members, and participate in on-call support.

Own Mercor’s internal identity and cloud platform infrastructure as code. Responsibilities include managing Okta and SCIM provisioning, designing IAM and cloud account structures across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Vercel, automating employee lifecycle workflows, managing secrets and key rotation, troubleshooting incidents, documenting systems, and mentoring future IT team members.