2 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design services and state models for multi-stage workflows spanning automated processing and expert review.
- Build orchestration primitives for retries, failure recovery, idempotency, and auditable state transitions in long-running jobs.
- Integrate model inference into production workflows while preserving debuggability and human oversight.
- Build APIs and tooling for product, operations, and ML teams to operate and debug workflows at scale.
- Own reliability and observability for workflows where silent failures can corrupt results.
- Design, ship, operate, debug, and improve systems end to end in collaboration with product, operations, and ML teams.
Requirements
- Production backend engineering experience.
- Strong judgment about system design, service boundaries, and managing complexity.
- Practical fluency with asynchronous workflows, queues, idempotency, retries, and long-running jobs.
- Ability to translate ambiguous product, operational, and ML constraints into clean, debuggable systems.
- Comfort working with Python, AWS, and Postgres.
- Experience with Temporal or similar workflow engines is preferred.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and take ownership of system reliability.
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure.
- Generous equity grant vested over four years.
- Relocation and housing support.
- Monthly meal, laundry, and personal wellness stipends.
- Free Equinox membership.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- In-person work five days a week in the San Francisco, New York City, or London offices.
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About Mercor
Mercor builds an expert-powered platform that trains, evaluates, and deploys AI systems for AI labs and enterprises. It operates APEX to assess model performance on economically valuable tasks, and provides services such as custom AI agents and teams of vetted domain experts who encode organizational knowledge into AI. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and works with frontier AI labs and enterprise clients requiring strict data isolation.