Mobile Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

mercor; India; Remote; INR 8,009,000 - 14,684,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The iOS Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) contract role is remote and uses frontier AI coding agents to tackle complex mobile tasks.

You will review model-generated Swift code for correctness and performance, identify bugs and edge cases, and evaluate architectural decisions. Compensation is $85/hour and typical tasks take 2–3 hours after ramp-up.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional iOS engineering experience.
• Production iOS apps built with Swift and modern frameworks.
• Regular use of AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI).
• Ability to evaluate model-generated mobile implementations and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate tasks.
• Review model-generated iOS code for correctness, quality, and performance.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to mobile scenarios.

Skills

iOS development

Swift

AI coding agents

Code evaluation

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

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: iOS Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type: Contract Compensation: $85/hour Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated mobile application code for correctness, quality, maintainability, and performance.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic mobile engineering scenarios.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional iOS engineering experience.
• Experience building and maintaining production iOS applications using Swift and modern iOS frameworks .
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor , Claude Code , Codex , Windsurf , Gemini CLI , or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated mobile implementations and architectural decisions.

Preferred

• Experience shipping production mobile applications.

Compensation & Legal

• $400 per accepted task
• Typical tasks take approximately 2-3 hours after ramp-up.
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.