# Software Engineer, Applied AI 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 (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/4bb1232c-3f1e-4fd7-8894-fcd68f96e3db
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercor-software-engineer-applied-ai/

## About the role

As a Software Engineer on Applied AI , you’ll build, deploy, and operate systems that sit directly between frontier AI research and data delivery.

## What they're looking for

- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
- Experience with model training and inference
- Strong grounding in statistical analysis and experimental design for measuring model performance and improvements
- Familiarity with evaluation methods for large language models
- Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively

Tags: Engineering