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 D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type: Contract Compensation: $85/hour Location: Remote Role
Role Responsibilities
- Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks.
- Review model-generated code for correctness, quality, maintainability, and performance.
- Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes in model outputs.
- Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
- Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic backend engineering scenarios.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Experience building APIs , distributed systems, microservices, backend platforms, or databases.
- Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
- Ability to evaluate model-generated code and identify bugs, edge cases, and architectural tradeoffs.
Preferred
- Experience working on large-scale production systems.
Compensation & Legal
- $400 per accepted task.
- Typical tasks take approximately 1–3 hours after ramp-up.
- No fixed task limits.
- Compensation is tied to accepted work.
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This position is listed as contract and able to be worked remotely.