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.
About the role
Frontier models increasingly depend on data that goes beyond text: images, video, audio, documents, and combinations of these modalities. Turning that raw material into useful data products is technically difficult. Each modality has different formats, quality failures, processing costs, privacy considerations, and review workflows. The final product still needs to be consistent, traceable, and trustworthy. Mercor’s Frontier Data Products team builds the systems that make these products possible.
What they're looking for
- Experience managing a strong engineering team while remaining an effective, hands-on technical leader
- Deep experience designing and operating production backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems
- Experience working with large unstructured data, asynchronous processing, metadata and versioning, or compute-heavy workflows
- Relevant experience in at least one area such as multimedia infrastructure, computer-vision data, video or audio processing, ML platforms, annotation systems, or human-in-the-loop products
- Strong judgment about platform boundaries: what should be generalized across modalities and what should remain modality-specific
- A track record of taking ambiguous, zero-to-one products through architecture, launch, and sustained production operation
More about this role
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.
Frontier models increasingly depend on data that goes beyond text: images, video, audio, documents, and combinations of these modalities. Turning that raw material into useful data products is technically...
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