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Engineering & Software Domain Expert

  • Pay: $65 to $105 / hour
  • Contract: Full time
  • Who can apply: United States
  • Who can apply: On site
  • Posted Aug 19, 2026

In short

Join the GenAI team through Mercor as an Engineering and Software Domain Expert. You will help a leading AI lab improve how frontier models handle real software tasks, making this a great fit if you have solid engineering experience.

What you will do

  • Review the quality of engineering knowledge work tasks and model outputs
  • Write instruction specs and golden solutions for engineering problems
  • Build benchmarks and evaluation sets with the research team
  • Work with researchers to keep evaluation standards consistent

What you need to apply

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field
  • 4 or more years of substantive professional engineering practice
  • Clear progression to a senior level with real ownership of systems
  • Visible record of engineering output such as shipped systems or open source contributions

Who can apply

Residents of US may apply for this hybrid role.

My tip

We recommend highlighting your shipped systems and hands-on experience with large language models clearly in your application.

Originally published on Mercor

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