# Software Engineer, Marketplace 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: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/160c8177-765b-4bdc-a5be-5f646dccc98a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercor-software-engineer-marketplace/

## About the role

As a Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will own the core systems that bring human intelligence to AI opportunities You'll work on search, matching, allocation, and workflow infrastructure at the heart of the marketplace, where systems deliver the world’s top experts to staff our cutting edge projects. The problems are technically demanding and tightly coupled to business outcomes: latency, reliability, throughput, and system quality all directly affect marketplace performance.

## What they're looking for

- • Track record of building and operating reliable backend systems in production
- • Strong judgment in system design, performance, reliability, and data modeling
- • Comfort working on high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows
- • Ability to translate product and marketplace requirements into clean technical systems
- • High engineering standards and a bias toward simple, durable abstractions

Tags: Engineering