Senior Software Engineer, Discovery

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bi-annual performance bonus

Equity grant vesting over 4 years

Relocation bonus up to $15k

Housing allowance up to $15k

Monthly meals stipend $1,500

Equinox membership

Laundry reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Job summary

Mercor is hiring for a Project Lead to run and scale distinct data production businesses. You will own major parts of a self‑optimizing automation platform and manage throughput, quality, and large‑scale staffing of experts.

The role requires a strong engineering background and comfort working with ambiguity. You will lead agents, pay/incentives models, experiments, and workflows to maintain projects that generate tens‑to‑hundreds of millions in revenue.

Qualifications

• Engineer with 5+ years of relevant experience and a track record of delivering high‑quality work.
• Thrives in ambiguous environments and tackles broad scope with rigor.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale data production initiatives across multiple projects.
• Oversee recruitment and upskilling of thousands of experts within the program.
• Help design and operate a self-optimizing automation platform to drive large revenue outcomes.
• Ensure accountability of agents and workflows to measurable business goals.

Skills

5+ years experience

Job description

About Mercor

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

The Role

Project leads at Mercor run and scale distinct data production businesses, each hiring and upskilling thousands of experts, while managing throughput and quality. We're building a self-optimizing automation platform that lets one person run a business of tens-hundreds of millions in revenue.

You'll own major parts of it:

• Agents that source, vet and staff with minimal human input

• Pay and incentives models that hire and retain the best experts

• Experiments and workflows that keep huge projects running smoothly

• Agents that are accountable for monitoring and driving real revenue goals

Who We're Looking For

We want engineers with 5+ years of experience who thrive under ambiguity, seek out outsized scope and fight for high quality.

Benefits

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure

• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years

• Up to $15k Relocation bonus

• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)

• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals

• Free Equinox membership

• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement

• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement

• Health, Dental, Vision insurance