Automation Engineer for AI Agent Systems (Equity)

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity grant vested over 4 years

$10K housing bonus (if living within 0.5 miles of office)

$1.5K monthly stipend for meals

Free Equinox membership

Health insurance

Job summary

A leading AI infrastructure company in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Automations team. This role involves building and maintaining critical systems for digital operations. The successful candidate will have a strong foundation in backend engineering with Python and experience in LLM APIs. Benefits include generous equity grants, a housing bonus, monthly meal stipends, and comprehensive health insurance. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on AI advancements.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals in Python or equivalent modern language.
• Experience building with LLM APIs, including tool use and structured outputs.
• Ability to design evaluation frameworks and think rigorously about agent failures.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain MCP servers for structured access to platform.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent decision quality.
• Develop action queues and playbook orchestration systems.
• Instrument agent systems to capture outcomes and close feedback loops.
• Collaborate with operators to identify automation opportunities.
• Debug and harden agent systems in production.

Skills

Backend engineering fundamentals in Python

Building with LLM APIs

Designing evaluation frameworks

Iterative shipping of systems

Understanding of distributed systems

Full-stack experience

Job description

A leading AI infrastructure company in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Automations team. This role involves building and maintaining critical systems for digital operations. The successful candidate will have a strong foundation in backend engineering with Python and experience in LLM APIs. Benefits include generous equity grants, a housing bonus, monthly meal stipends, and comprehensive health insurance. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on AI advancements.