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: Full-Stack Software Engineer
Type: Contract
Compensation: $50?$80/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Write precise product specifications for application development and automatic grading.
• Build complete reference implementations that meet all written criteria.
• Author browser-driven acceptance criteria to verify user-visible behavior.
• Calibrate task difficulty using frontier models to achieve target performance.
• Verify tasks fail cleanly against empty repositories to ensure genuine feature development.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience.
• Fluency in at least one modern frontend framework and one backend runtime.
• Experience with auth , permissions , payment flows , and file upload in production.
• Ability to specify systems precisely in writing.
• Comfort with Docker , Git , and command-line tooling.

Preferred

• Experience building evaluations, benchmarks, or test suites for AI systems .

Application Process (Takes 20? 30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.