Remote DevOps SRE for AI Model Evaluations

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 96,432 - 151,536; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Contract role with task-based pay

Job summary

Mercor is hiring a DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for a remote contract role. Compensation is $85/hour.

The position focuses on using frontier AI coding agents to perform and evaluate complex infrastructure tasks, review cloud infrastructure implementations, and ensure reliability through rigorous assessment. Must have 2+ years in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering and experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or observability tooling.
• Regular use of AI coding agents like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and infrastructure automation.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

Cloud engineering

AI coding agent usage

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Job description

Mercor is hiring a DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for a remote contract role. Compensation is $85/hour.

The position focuses on using frontier AI coding agents to perform and evaluate complex infrastructure tasks, review cloud infrastructure implementations, and ensure reliability through rigorous assessment. Must have 2+ years in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering and experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.