Software Engineer (India)
Role Overview
As a Software Engineer at Mercor, you will help refine and scale an AI-powered hiring platform, focusing on improving the AI interview experience and building a robust recruiting engine. This mid-level role involves collaborating with a team of researchers and operators, impacting how AI labs train their models through advanced technology solutions. You will engage with high-volume data processing and contribute to innovative projects aimed at creating a billion jobs.
Perks & Benefits
This remote role requires alignment with evening working hours to Pacific Time, ensuring collaboration across time zones. Mercor emphasizes career growth through exposure to cutting-edge AI developments and offers insights into model capabilities ahead of market trends. The company culture promotes learning and ownership, with a focus on impactful work in a fast-paced environment.
Full Job Description
About Mercor
Mercor is at the intersection of labor markets and AI research. 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 can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $1.5 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. 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 new San Francisco headquarters.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer at Mercor, you'll play a crucial role in helping us refine and scale our AI-powered hiring platform, which will create a billion jobs. Members of our technical staff are responsible for improving the AI interview experience, processing millions in payouts each week, building a people search over billions of people, post-training LLMs, and building the best recruiting engine in the world.
What We're Looking for
Willing to align evening working hours with PT timezone through at least 11am PT.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science
Fluency in React, Next.js, Python, or Go
Experience designing schemas for SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS)
Attention to detail and eagerness to learn
3+ years of experience
Why Mercor
Impact: Your work powers how the world’s leading AI labs train and test their models.
Learning: Get early insights into frontier model capabilities months before the market.
Growth: Work on both infrastructure and research-adjacent projects with fast paths to ownership.
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