Job Description
About Mercor Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. 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 $3 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 San Francisco, NYC, or London offices. About the Role As a Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will own the core systems that bring human intelligence to AI opportunities You'll work on search, matching, allocation, and workflow infrastructure at the heart of the marketplace, where systems deliver the world’s top experts to staff our cutting edge projects. The problems are technically demanding and tightly coupled to business outcomes: latency, reliability, throughput, and system quality all directly affect marketplace performance. What You'll Build Backend services that power candidate-job matching, routing, and marketplace workflows APIs and internal systems for search, eligibility, scoring, allocation, and fulfillment Data models and system abstractions for a rapidly evolving labor marketplace Infrastructure for real-time and asynchronous decisioning at high volume Operational systems and tooling that keep product-critical workflows reliable, observable, and easy to evolve Example Problems • Build the systems that determine which candidates are eligible for which opportunities • Design matching and allocation in
