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

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 qualified 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.

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