Remote Data Engineer for AI-Driven ETL Pipelines

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 94,000 - 127,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for remote work under a contract arrangement. The role focuses on using frontier AI coding agents to perform and assess complex data engineering tasks, including ETL pipelines and analytics platforms.

The candidate will review model-generated data infrastructure implementations, identify issues, and apply engineering judgment to real-world scenarios. Prior experience with AI coding agents and distributed data systems is required.

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 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 experience

AI coding agents usage

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

Job description

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for remote work under a contract arrangement. The role focuses on using frontier AI coding agents to perform and assess complex data engineering tasks, including ETL pipelines and analytics platforms.

The candidate will review model-generated data infrastructure implementations, identify issues, and apply engineering judgment to real-world scenarios. Prior experience with AI coding agents and distributed data systems is required.