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Build backend services, APIs, and end-to-end features for Mercor's assessment platform. Design evaluation pipelines combining human judgment and AI scoring, work across stack including frontend when needed, and partner with Product, AI, and Data teams to translate research into production.

Lead the design of APEX AI productivity benchmarks and expert-built datasets. Define task taxonomies, grading rubrics, contamination controls, statistical methods, and evaluation standards. Collaborate with academic, industry, engineering, product, data operations, and GTM teams to scale benchmarks, publish findings, and communicate results to technical and commercial audiences. Track LLM evaluation research and translate benchmark insights into company strategy and customer narratives.

Lead evolution of Mercor's brand across external and internal touchpoints. Create high-impact visual assets (web, social, decks, events), build scalable brand systems, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex AI and talent concepts into a distinctive visual language.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for candidate-job matching, routing, scoring, and marketplace workflows. Develop high-throughput APIs, data models, real-time and async decisioning, and observability tools to ensure reliable, low-latency marketplace performance and scalable fulfillment.

Own Mercor’s global payments platform, including expert payouts, disbursement rails, ledgers, reconciliation, contracts, earnings, and payment operations. Partner with engineering, finance, compliance, operations, and support to improve payment accuracy, speed, reliability, cost, and retention. Define strategy, write product specifications, investigate failed payouts, build dashboards, conduct user research, and deliver scalable money-movement capabilities across markets, currencies, and regulatory environments.

Drive cross-functional business execution across Delivery, Finance, Product, and GTM. Responsibilities include identifying and resolving revenue blockers, translating forecasts into operational plans, program managing commercially important product work, running business reviews and execution cadences, building dashboards and KPIs, supporting company strategy, and leading special projects. The role requires operating effectively in ambiguity, influencing without formal authority, and partnering closely with leadership.

Seeking an Agentic Finance Engineer to design and automate finance systems, integrating AI, maintaining data integrity, and collaborating with finance leads.

The Administrative Generalist will support daily operations, coordinate events, assist recruiters, and provide HR support while ensuring a well-organized office environment.

As a Recruiting Coordinator, you will manage interview schedules, ensure data integrity in ATS, support candidate experience, and assist in recruiting events. Requires strong organizational skills and communication.

Design, build, and validate new AI benchmarks and evaluation methodologies. Fellows create task specifications and grading rubrics, collaborate with domain experts, run frontier models, analyze failures, test for contamination and gaming, and publish findings through papers, datasets, leaderboards, or internal methodologies. The fellowship provides mentorship, compute, expert labor, and access to enterprise evaluation problems.