LLM Agent Reliability Engineer

Mercor; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking engineers who build and operate LLM agents in production and who have real visibility into how agents are actually used inside a company. You likely have shipped an agent used by real users and handled failures in production. We emphasize internal monoagents, shared company memory, and observable costs.

Interview begins with a short conversational AI discussion. No coding or take-home tasks.

Qualifications

• Applying starts with a short conversational AI interview. No coding, no take-home.
• We want to hear how you actually think about agent reliability, evaluation, and adoption, and the tradeoffs you have made in real systems.
• Bring war stories. The messier and more specific, the better.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate LLM agents in production.
• Improve reliability, evaluation, and adoption of agents inside the company.
• Discuss tradeoffs and learn from real systems, sharing concrete experiences.

Skills

LLM agent development

Production debugging

User impact awareness

Job description

Mercor is seeking engineers who build and operate LLM agents in production and who have real visibility into how agents are actually used inside a company. You likely have shipped an agent used by real users and handled failures in production. We emphasize internal monoagents, shared company memory, and observable costs.

Interview begins with a short conversational AI discussion. No coding or take-home tasks.