Remote Agentic Search Systems Engineer

mercor; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The Software Engineer - Agentic Search Systems role is remote on a contract basis, paying $80-$150 per hour.

You will evaluate AI-generated content, develop and optimize agentic search systems, and scale data infrastructure to support modern search capabilities.

Collaborate with AI researchers, quantify impact, and work independently to meet deadlines in a fast-evolving environment.

Qualifications

• Must-Have Experience shipping production search systems.
• Ownership of relevance or retrieval on systems used by real users.
• Ability to quantify impact and improvements in search systems.
• Experience building systems related to agentic search.
• Experience scaling data infrastructure for search systems.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the accuracy and depth of AI-generated content in search systems to strengthen reasoning and rigor in model outputs.
• Develop and optimize systems related to agentic search for improved performance and reliability.
• Scale data infrastructure to support modern search systems and enhance retrieval capabilities.
• Collaborate with AI research teams to quantify impact and improvements in search systems.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Skills

Production search

Relevance retrieval

Agentic search

Data infrastructure

Impact quantification

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The Software Engineer - Agentic Search Systems role is remote on a contract basis, paying $80-$150 per hour.

You will evaluate AI-generated content, develop and optimize agentic search systems, and scale data infrastructure to support modern search capabilities.

Collaborate with AI researchers, quantify impact, and work independently to meet deadlines in a fast-evolving environment.