Product Engineer, Talent Experience

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bi-annual performance bonus

Equity grant

Relocation bonus

Proximity bonus

Meals stipend

Equinox membership

Laundry reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Health insurance

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a versatile Staff Engineer to join the talent experience team in shaping customer‑facing experiences across product surfaces used by AI experts and labs. You’ll ship production code quickly, influence technical decisions, and collaborate with product leaders across the organization.

You’ll thrive in a small, high‑velocity team, ramp quickly on new domains, and uphold a high standard for UX and performance while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production web applications.
• Strong proficiency in modern frontend development (e.g. React, TypeScript) with genuine care for UI polish and user experience.
• Solid full‑stack capability—comfortable building and consuming backend APIs and working with production databases.
• Track record of shipping across multiple product areas or codebases; you ramp fast and thrive on variety.
• Comfortable building products using modern AI development tools to accelerate software development.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
• Excellent product intuition—you enjoy building products that people actually use.
• Comfortable working in fast‑moving environments with evolving priorities.
• High ownership, curiosity, and a bias toward shipping.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship high‑quality full‑stack product features across multiple product areas.
• Build polished, intuitive user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks, with strong attention to UX detail.
• Own features end‑to‑end—from product discussions and technical design to implementation, testing, and release.
• Move between product areas as priorities evolve, ramping quickly on unfamiliar codebases and domains.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, AI, and Backend Engineering to deliver customer‑facing experiences.
• Build reusable components and contribute to shared frontend patterns and design systems.
• Leverage modern AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining a high engineering bar.
• Solve real customer problems and continuously improve expert and customer experience.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Full-stack

Frontend

Testing

Performance

UX polish

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Codex

Job description

About Mercor

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development. Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can’t be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day.

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast‑paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in‑person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

About the Role

As a Member of Technical Staff of the talent experience team, you’ll be a generalist full‑stack engineer supporting execution across Mercor's talent experience product horizon—wherever the highest‑leverage work is.

Mercor ships fast across multiple product surfaces used by tens of thousands of AI experts and the world's leading AI labs. You’ll be the engineer teams can rely on to parachute into a product area, ramp quickly, and deliver polished, customer‑facing experiences—with a lean toward frontend craft while remaining effective across the full stack.

You’ll join a small, high‑velocity engineering team with significant ownership. From your first week, you’ll ship production code, contribute to technical decisions, and work directly with product leaders across the organization. This role rewards versatility: the engineers who thrive here get energy from context‑switching, learning new domains fast, and raising the quality bar everywhere they go.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and ship high‑quality full‑stack product features across multiple product areas.
• Build polished, intuitive user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks, with strong attention to UX detail.
• Own features end‑to‑end—from product discussions and technical design to implementation, testing, and release.
• Move between product areas as priorities evolve, ramping quickly on unfamiliar codebases and domains.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, AI, and Backend Engineering to deliver customer‑facing experiences.
• Build reusable components and contribute to shared frontend patterns and design systems.
• Leverage modern AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining a high engineering bar.
• Solve real customer problems and continuously improve expert and customer experience.

What We’re Looking For

• 2–5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production web applications.
• Strong proficiency in modern frontend development (e.g. React, TypeScript) with genuine care for UI polish and user experience.
• Solid full‑stack capability—comfortable building and consuming backend APIs and working with production databases.
• Track record of shipping across multiple product areas or codebases; you ramp fast and thrive on variety.
• Comfortable building products using modern AI development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar) to accelerate software development.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
• Excellent product intuition—you enjoy building products that people actually use.
• Comfortable working in fast‑moving environments with evolving priorities.
• High ownership, curiosity, and a bias toward shipping.

Why This Role Matters

• Impact: Ship customer‑facing products across Mercor's entire portfolio and directly shape the future of the AI workforce.
• Ownership: Join a small, high‑velocity engineering team where you’ll own features end‑to‑end and influence product direction from day one.
• Learning: Unusual breadth—work across products, teams, and domains alongside world‑class engineers and AI researchers.
• Growth: Rapid career progression with opportunities to expand ownership as the product portfolio and engineering organization scale.

Benefits

• Bi‑annual performance bonus structure
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k Relocation bonus
• $10K proximity bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
• Free Equinox membership
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance