Search Systems Engineer - Agentic & Relevance Leader

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking engineers who have shipped production search systems and have deep thinking about requirements and optimizations for these systems. You should be prepared to discuss how you quantify impact and improvements, especially in agentic search contexts, and to bring concrete war stories from real-world deployments.

The interview is a 25-minute conversational session with no coding or take-home assignment.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production search systems with ownership and clear impact evaluation.
• Strong ability to quantify improvements and tradeoffs in retrieved results.
• Experience working on agentic/search systems and related architectures.
• Proven track record scaling data infrastructure to power modern search systems.

Responsibilities

• Discuss how you evaluate search quality and determine tradeoffs in real systems.
• Share war stories with concrete examples of performance, relevance, and reliability improvements.

Skills

Relevance retrieval ownership

Quantifying impact & improvements

Agentic search systems

Scaling data infrastructure for search

Job description

Mercor is seeking engineers who have shipped production search systems and have deep thinking about requirements and optimizations for these systems. You should be prepared to discuss how you quantify impact and improvements, especially in agentic search contexts, and to bring concrete war stories from real-world deployments.

The interview is a 25-minute conversational session with no coding or take-home assignment.