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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.

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

Partner with Engineering and Product leaders on talent, organizational design, performance, succession, manager coaching, and complex people decisions. Build development and talent programs from 0 to 1, run performance processes, identify workforce patterns, and provide actionable recommendations. Collaborate across Recruiting and People Operations while balancing strategic advising with hands-on execution in a fast-growing startup.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team in Applied AI, focusing on building scalable systems, driving evaluations to improve model performance, and managing engineering talent.

As a Growth Associate, you'll recruit specialized experts for AI companies, enhance sourcing channels, manage talent pipelines, and drive company growth.

As a Research Engineer, you'll enhance AI models through post-training and evaluation pipelines, focusing on data quality and performance metrics.

The Enterprise AI Associate will engage with customers, support AI solution deployment, and translate feedback into structured plans while collaborating with engineering teams and refining marketing strategies.

Design, build, and operate identity and access infrastructure at massive scale. Work directly with operations to translate requirements into secure, distributed systems covering authentication, authorization, provisioning, and directory synchronization across thousands of Slack workspaces and HR systems. Own features end-to-end and iterate on design with security-first thinking.

The role involves building and scaling Mercor's payments platform, focusing on observability, reliability, automation, and addressing payment infrastructure challenges as the payment volume grows significantly.