Frontier AI Data Engineer & Model Evaluator

Obsidian; Greater London; Remote; GBP 327,000 - 491,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking contributors to join a frontier code agents project. You will work on realistic data engineering workflows and evaluate model-generated data infrastructure and pipelines.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in data engineering, experience with ETL pipelines and data platforms, and regularly use AI coding agents to assess model outputs. Remote collaboration and sprint-based work are expected.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional 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.
• Experience operating large-scale data platforms is preferred.

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.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL pipelines

Distributed data systems

AI coding agents

Data platforms

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

Job description

Mercor is seeking contributors to join a frontier code agents project. You will work on realistic data engineering workflows and evaluate model-generated data infrastructure and pipelines.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in data engineering, experience with ETL pipelines and data platforms, and regularly use AI coding agents to assess model outputs. Remote collaboration and sprint-based work are expected.