Job description
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: Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type:Contract
Compensation:$80/hour
Location:Remote
Role Responsibilities
Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex data engineering tasks.
Review model-generated implementations involving ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, and distributed data systems.
Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios.
Qualifications
Must-Have
2+ years of professional data engineering experience.
Experience building ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, or distributed data systems.
Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
Ability to evaluate model-generated data infrastructure and pipeline implementations.
Preferred
Experience operating large-scale data platforms.
Compensation & Legal
$400 per accepted task.
Compensation is tied to accepted work.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.