Engineering Manager, Fraud & Compliance

Job summary

Responsibilities

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.

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers responsible for fraud detection, identity verification, abuse prevention, and platform integrity
• Define and execute Mercor's fraud and compliance engineering roadmap in partnership with product, operations, and company leadership
• Build systems that generate fraud signals, evaluate risk, make automated decisions, and continuously improve through human review and feedback loops
• Drive the development of AI-powered detection systems, including LLM-based decision engines, scoring models, and review workflows
• Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure detection performance, confidence calibration, false positive/negative tradeoffs, and business impact

What they're looking for

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree such as Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Statistics
• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams
• Experience leading teams through periods of significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change, with clear examples of the impact you've personally driven