Product Engineer, Talent Experience

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Member of Technical Staff on the Talent Experience team, you'll build the systems that evaluate the skills and expertise of the world's top talent at scale.

• Design, build, and ship backend services and APIs that power Mercor's assessment platform at scale.
• Own features end-to-end—from product discussions and technical design to implementation, testing, and release.
• Build evaluation pipelines and data models that combine human judgment with AI-powered scoring.
• Contribute across the stack, including the candidate- and expert-facing product surfaces of assessment flows.
• Partner closely with Product, AI, and Data teams to translate assessment research into production systems.

What they're looking for

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
• Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, and relational databases.
• Comfortable working across the stack, including modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React/TypeScript) when the product needs it.
• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features in production is a strong plus.
• Comfortable building products using modern AI development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar) to accelerate software development.

Tech stack

• React
• TypeScript