Remote Agentic Search Systems Engineer (Contract)

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 82,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Software Engineer to develop and optimize agentic search systems for production environments. This remote role emphasizes owning relevance and retrieval to meet user needs, and quantifying system impact with clear improvements.

You will build and scale data infrastructure to support modern search capabilities, working independently and asynchronously to enhance search quality and evaluation. A strong background in production search and agentic techniques is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with production search systems and agentic search.
• Proven ability to own relevance or retrieval on user-dependent systems.
• Strong skills in quantifying system impact and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize agentic search systems for production environments.
• Own relevance and retrieval processes to ensure systems meet user needs.
• Quantify the impact and improvements of search systems effectively.
• Build and scale data infrastructure to support modern search capabilities.
• Work independently and asynchronously to enhance search quality and evaluation.

Skills

Agentic search

Production search systems

Retrieval relevance

Quantifying impact

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Software Engineer to develop and optimize agentic search systems for production environments. This remote role emphasizes owning relevance and retrieval to meet user needs, and quantifying system impact with clear improvements.

You will build and scale data infrastructure to support modern search capabilities, working independently and asynchronously to enhance search quality and evaluation. A strong background in production search and agentic techniques is essential.