Remote Data Engineer (Contract) AI-Driven Pipelines

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for contract work. You will work remotely to tackle complex data engineering tasks using frontier AI coding agents, evaluating model-generated ETL implementations, data pipelines, and distributed systems.

You will review multiple model outputs, identify bugs and scalability issues, and apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data scenarios while collaborating with a distributed team.

Qualifications

• 2+ years professional data engineering experience required.
• Experience building ETL pipelines, data warehouses, or distributed data systems.
• Regular use of AI coding agents for coding tasks.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated data infrastructure outputs.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate data tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations of ETL pipelines and data platforms.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess strengths/weaknesses.
• Apply engineering judgment to realistic data scenarios.

Skills

2+ years data engineering

ETL pipelines

data warehouses

analytics platforms

distributed data systems

ability to evaluate model outputs

use of AI coding agents

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for contract work. You will work remotely to tackle complex data engineering tasks using frontier AI coding agents, evaluating model-generated ETL implementations, data pipelines, and distributed systems.

You will review multiple model outputs, identify bugs and scalability issues, and apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data scenarios while collaborating with a distributed team.