AI Project Builder — Remote & Flexible ($500/Session)

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research organization to understand how people build with AI coding assistants. We’re looking for builders with their own projects to work in OpenCode, a terminal-based coding assistant, while sessions are recorded.

You’ll build or improve your own project using provided models, choosing the right tool for each task and keeping interactions focused per task. Remote, flexible schedule, start immediately, with compensation per accepted session.

Qualifications

• Actively building a real project (side project, startup, app, or LLM-powered feature).
• Experience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Cline, Replit, Lovable).
• Familiar with Mac or Linux terminal setup.
• Non-coders who build with AI are welcome to apply.

Responsibilities

• Build or improve your own real project using the open-weight and Gemini models we provide.
• Choose which model to use for each task, and switch whenever you naturally would
• Use one chat per task.

Skills

Active project building

AI tool usage

Terminal setup Mac/Linux

Non-coder welcome

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Cline

Replit

Lovable

Job description

Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research organization to understand how people build with AI coding assistants. We’re looking for builders with their own projects to work in OpenCode, a terminal-based coding assistant, while sessions are recorded.

You’ll build or improve your own project using provided models, choosing the right tool for each task and keeping interactions focused per task. Remote, flexible schedule, start immediately, with compensation per accepted session.