AI/ML Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

Role Summary

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 .

• Position: ML Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
• Type: Contract
• Compensation: $85/hour
• Location: Remote
• Role Responsibilities

Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex machine learning and AI engineering tasks.

Review model-generated implementations involving model training , inference systems , MLOps , and LLM applications .

Identify bugs, edge cases, performance issues, and failure modes in AI models .

Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.

Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic ML engineering scenarios.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional machine learning engineering experience.
• Experience building production ML systems , model deployment infrastructure, LLM applications , or AI-powered products .
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated machine learning implementations and technical tradeoffs.

Preferred

• Experience deploying ML systems to production.
• Compensation & Legal
• $400 per accepted task
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.
• Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form
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