Remote Data Engineer: AI Coding Agent Specialist

Mercor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 96,432 - 123,984; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for a remote role focused on completing and evaluating data engineering tasks with frontier AI coding agents. Candidates should have 2+ years of experience, especially with ETL pipelines and data infrastructure.

The compensation is $80/hour with additional earnings for accepted tasks. The application process includes a resume upload and an AI interview.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of 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, or Codex.

Responsibilities

• Use AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex data engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations involving ETL pipelines and data infrastructures.
• Identify bugs and assess strengths and weaknesses of models.

Skills

Data engineering experience

ETL pipelines

Data warehouses

Analytics platforms

AI coding agents

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for a remote role focused on completing and evaluating data engineering tasks with frontier AI coding agents. Candidates should have 2+ years of experience, especially with ETL pipelines and data infrastructure.

The compensation is $80/hour with additional earnings for accepted tasks. The application process includes a resume upload and an AI interview.