Mercor.io Corporation

Research Engineer, Real Environments

Mercor.io Corporation · San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA $180K–$500K Posted 2026-07-24
Salary
$180K–$500K
Type
Full-time
Experience
4+ yr

ABOUT MERCOR

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.

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

You’ll work with large enterprises to capture their data and transform it into high-fidelity RL environments for capability evaluations and training datasets for frontier labs. We focus on pushing the frontier of world-building, verifier engineering, and more alongside our partners.

Your goal will be to automate the process of building evals for real work in the economy.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Ship models for workflow extraction, classification, and grading.
  • Engineer autonomous task refinement processes which distill data taste into pipelines.
  • Deliver data to customers and deploy into real engagements.
  • Help define the future of agentic transformation for enterprises around the world.
  • Deeply learn about the intricacies of enterprises through building evaluations for all aspects of work.
  • Build end-to-end environments for labs & enterprises by platformizing sandbox app clones, load real data into the sandboxes, build prompts from real workflows, and write verifiers leveraging enterprise expertise & golden outputs.
  • Systematize the production of environments to scale throughput while maintaining high-quality worlds and verifiers.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Prior experience shipping environments – you’ve contributed to an OSS framework, built environments at previous companies, or worked on agentic evaluations.
  • Strong full-stack engineering skills – you’ll be responsible for everything from infrastructure to app code to analytics
  • Bias to action – this team is focused on shipping evals, not just philosophizing about them.
  • Curiosity – being biased towards understanding and digging deep into model behavior and actually looking at the data.
  • Sweat the details that make a simulation indistinguishable from the real thing and have systems-level thinking skills that allow you to scale up quality.

NICE TO HAVE

  • Experience with Temporal, Modal, or similar orchestration/compute services
  • Experience with synthetic data generation for frontier models.Past work auditing and scrutinizing industry-standard evaluations

BENEFITS

  • Semi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
$110K — 10th pctl $265K — 90th pctl
This role’s midpoint $340K vs. market median $180K for Engineering roles
+90%
above median
Based on 22,000+ Engineering roles with disclosed salary ranges tracked on NewJob.
Mercor

Mercor

AI · Series C · San Francisco, USA

Stage & Valuation
Series C · $10B
Key Investors
Felicis, Benchmark, General Catalyst
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