# Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems at Mercor

- Company: Mercor
- What the company does: Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy. We are powering frontier research, AI benchmarks, and AI agent training at scale for the top AI labs and enterprises. Backed by General Catalyst and Menlo.
- Company website: https://mercor.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/4302efe7-9396-4bdd-9a3b-ecd045ba3d3c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercor-member-of-technical-staff-agentic-systems/

## About the role

As a Member of Technical Staff on Talent Experience, you'll build the backend systems and agent infrastructure behind every journey in Mercor's talent network.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, service architecture, data modeling, and API design at scale
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs in production—agents, tool use, retrieval, or evaluation systems—or a clear track record of learning new systems fast and shipping them
- Comfort with ambiguity: agent systems fail in ways traditional services don't, and the right design is rarely obvious upfront
- A track record of owning systems end to end, from design through production operation
- Fluent in using modern AI development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to improve engineering productivity

Tags: Engineering