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Mercor Posted 30+ days ago
Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering
Location
San Francisco
On-site
Contract
Permanent
Full-time
Salary
$160–500k
Gross per year
Experience
Not specified
Job summary
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer on Applied AI, you’ll build, deploy, and operate systems that sit directly between frontier AI research and data delivery.
- Partner closely with frontier AI labs to understand their data, post-training, and evaluation needs
- Build and operate scalable data pipelines for post-training workflows and model evaluations
- Design and build scalable systems for synthetic data generation and data quality, and work directly with customers to understand requirements and develop technical solutions
- Prototype new data types, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks
- Lead technical discussions with customers
What they're looking for
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
- Experience with model training and inference
- Strong grounding in statistical analysis and experimental design for measuring model performance and improvements
- Familiarity with evaluation methods for large language models
- Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively
Tech stack
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