Remote Data Engineer: AI Coding & ETL Pipeline Expert

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for remote contract work, offering $80/hour with compensation tied to accepted tasks.

You will leverage frontier AI coding agents to design, implement, and evaluate data infrastructure and pipelines across ETL, warehouses and analytics platforms. The role emphasizes testing model outputs, identifying edge cases, and applying engineering judgment to

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, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate data tasks.
• Review model-generated ETL, data warehouse, analytics pipelines outputs.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to real data engineering scenarios.

Skills

Data Engineering

ETL Pipelines

AI Coding Tools

Model Evaluation

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for remote contract work, offering $80/hour with compensation tied to accepted tasks.

You will leverage frontier AI coding agents to design, implement, and evaluate data infrastructure and pipelines across ETL, warehouses and analytics platforms. The role emphasizes testing model outputs, identifying edge cases, and applying engineering judgment to