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:

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Type:

Contract

Compensation:

$50–$80/hour

Location:

Remote

Role Responsibilities

Write precise product specifications for application development and automatic grading.
Build complete reference implementations that meet all written criteria.
Author browser-driven acceptance criteria to verify user-visible behavior.
Calibrate task difficulty using frontier models to achieve target performance.
Verify tasks fail cleanly against empty repositories to ensure genuine feature development.

Qualifications

Must-Have

3+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience.
Fluency in at least one modern frontend framework and one backend runtime.
Experience with auth, permissions, payment flows, and file upload in production.
Ability to specify systems precisely in writing.
Comfort with Docker, Git, and command-line tooling.

Preferred

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

Resources & Support

For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.