engineering
Posted 19 hours agoEngineering Manager, Applied AI
at Mercor
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
$15,000
Requirements
- ABOUT MERCOR Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone.
- Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.
- You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
- ABOUT THE ROLE We’re hiring Engineering Managers to lead teams within our Applied AI organization.
- Applied AI builds systems that directly improve model quality, including evaluation infrastructure, annotation products, and emerging multimodal capabilities.
- You’ll lead a team of engineers, partner with product and research, and help define how Mercor stays at the frontier of AI.
- You will also build partnerships with leading AI labs and directly contribute to improving the quality of frontier models through data, evaluation, and systems.
- WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON BUILD AND SCALE TEAMS - Manage and grow a team of 6–10 engineers - Coach and develop high-potential engineers - Establish strong ownership, culture, and execution standards - Shape the team: define hiring processes, establish engineering practices, and scale a high-performing team from the ground up DRIVE APPLIED AI SYSTEMS AND OUTCOMES - Drive insights and methodology behind evaluation systems that benchmark and improve model performance - Lead development while driving improvements in
- SUCCESS METRICS - Build high-performing, well-supported teams - Hire and retain strong engineers - Improve team velocity and execution quality - Contribute to systems that measurably improve model performance LOCATION - San Francisco (preferred) or New York - Relocation assistance will be provided as needed WHY THIS ROLE - Direct impact on frontier AI development - Build partnerships with leading AI labs and shape how frontier models improve - High ownership across team, systems, and hiring - Opportunity
Benefits
- Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $2 million a day.
- Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.