Remote AI Data Engineer — Model Evaluation (Contract)

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for remote work. You will use frontier AI coding agents to complete complex data tasks, review model-generated ETL pipelines, and evaluate distributed data systems with professional engineering judgment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years professional data engineering experience.
• Experience building ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, or distributed data systems.
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated data infrastructure and pipeline implementations.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex data engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations involving ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, and distributed data systems.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL pipelines

Distributed data systems

Model evaluation

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for remote work. You will use frontier AI coding agents to complete complex data tasks, review model-generated ETL pipelines, and evaluate distributed data systems with professional engineering judgment.