# Product Engineer, Talent Experience 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: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/03662092-4f6b-4c82-8d6d-5e7e839c31d7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercor-product-engineer-talent-experience/

## About the role

As a Member of Technical Staff on the Talent Experience team, you'll build the systems that evaluate the skills and expertise of the world's top talent at scale.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
- Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, and relational databases
- Comfortable working across the stack, including modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React/TypeScript) when the product needs it
- Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features in production is a strong plus
- Comfortable building products using modern AI development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar) to accelerate software development
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, and performance optimization

Tags: Engineering