Remote Data Engineer: Frontier AI & Data Pipelines

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 441,000 - 551,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor partners with a leading AI research lab to support a Frontier Code Agents project. You will evaluate and improve frontier AI coding models through structured technical assessments focused on realistic data engineering workflows.

Candidates should have 2+ years of data engineering experience and be adept at reviewing ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and distributed data systems, using AI coding agents to drive quality and reliability.

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.
• Experience operating large-scale data platforms is preferred.

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.
• 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

Data warehouses

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

Job description

Mercor partners with a leading AI research lab to support a Frontier Code Agents project. You will evaluate and improve frontier AI coding models through structured technical assessments focused on realistic data engineering workflows.

Candidates should have 2+ years of data engineering experience and be adept at reviewing ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and distributed data systems, using AI coding agents to drive quality and reliability.