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Contractor

Pay

USD 75 – 110 (hourly)

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Job description

Salary:: USD 75 - 110 per hour
Location:: United States
Work arrangement:: Remote

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: Cloud / DevOps Engineer (Infra & IaC)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $75–$110/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 40 hours/week
Role Responsibilities

Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in cloud infrastructure , Kubernetes operations , and Infrastructure-as-Code topics.

Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks, and write accurate and well-structured solutions to cluster diagnosis , AWS service integration , and infrastructure automation problems.

Evaluate infrastructure engineering tasks and solutions and provide clear, written technical feedback.

Develop guidelines and detailed rubrics/evaluation frameworks to assess cluster failure diagnosis , IaC design quality , and CI/CD pipeline reasoning across tasks.

Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

Requirements

4+ years of dedicated professional experience in cloud infrastructure , DevOps , site reliability , or platform engineering .
Hands-on production experience operating Kubernetes , including diagnosing and repairing cluster failures.
Production experience with Infrastructure-as-Code , specifically Terraform and/or AWS CDK .
Direct experience integrating AWS services in production, including Lambda , API Gateway , and DynamoDB .
Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines .
Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly.
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Role:: Infrastructure Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $110/hr
Job Type:: Contractor

Company profile

mercor

mercor.com

Mercor is an AI data company that connects domain experts across hundreds of professional fields with frontier AI labs and enterprises. Experts on its platform train and evaluate AI models, and its APEX benchmark family measures how AI performs on real-world professional work. Mercor Enterprise helps large companies capture how their most skilled people work and turn that expertise into AI agents. Founded in 2023, the company has offices in San Francisco, NYC and London.

Founded: 2023
Funding Stage: Series C