Lead Software Engineer
Mercor
Contract
Software Development
Canada
Hiring from: Canada
Company Introduction
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Role Overview
Must-Have Qualifications
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Role Overview
- Position: Software Engineer – Contractor, Remote
- Commitment: 10–20 hours per week, potential to increase to 40 hours
- Duration: Minimum 2 weeks, potential for extension
- Support AI labs in building robust, high-performance systems for next-gen machine learning applications.
- Use coding agents for realistic coding tasks on real-world codebases.
- Develop and support robust, high-performance systems for machine learning applications.
- Utilize coding agents to perform realistic coding tasks on real-world codebases.
- Collaborate with AI research teams to enhance system performance and reliability.
- Contribute to open source projects and share personal projects on GitHub.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet project deadlines and improve AI model performance.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Extensive experience using coding agents like codex, claude code, etc.
- Fluent in Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
- Computer Science degree from a prestigious university in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, or New Zealand.
- Located in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, or New Zealand.
- Exceptional attention to detail and rigorous problem-solving skills.
- Excel in both written and verbal communication.
- Contributions to open source projects.
- Extensive work on robust personal projects shared publicly on GitHub.
- Contract Type: Hourly contractor
- Compensation: Paid weekly via Stripe Connect
- Schedule: Fully remote and asynchronous
- Start Date: Early October, applications reviewed on a rolling basis
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
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