Engineering Manager, Core Engineering
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. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day.
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.
We're building the infrastructure that powers one of the world's largest expert networks and delivers expert data at unprecedented scale.
We're looking for exceptional engineering leaders to help us scale both our expert marketplace and the underlying platform infrastructure that powers it.
We value builders who have repeatedly chosen difficult problems, thrived in environments with high expectations and can point to concrete examples where their leadership materially changed the trajectory of a team, product, or company.
Why This Role
We're still early.
The problems are genuinely hard, largely unsolved, and increasingly important to the future of AI. You'll have a direct hand in shaping both the systems we build and the teams that build them.
Depending on your background, you may lead engineering efforts focused on:
Marketplace growth, discovery, ranking, recommendations, search, matching, and AI-powered experiences that connect experts with opportunities
Platform infrastructure, including payments, contracting, operational systems, reliability, scalability, and the core foundations that enable Mercor to operate globally
In either case, you'll be responsible for building products and systems that sit at the center of the AI ecosystem and help the world's leading AI organizations access expert knowledge at scale.
What You'll Do
Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams
Recruit exceptional engineers and raise the talent bar across the organization
Define technical strategy and execute against ambitious business goals
Partner closely with product, operations and company leadership
Build highly scalable systems that support a rapidly growing global expert network
Drive engineering excellence, velocity, and operational rigor
What We're Looking For
5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams
A demonstrated track record of exceptional performance and sustained career progression in high-growth, high-talent-density environments
Experience leading teams and organizations through periods of significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change, with clear examples of the impact you've personally driven
Why Mercor
The next generation of AI will be built on expert knowledge.
Mercor sits at the center of that transformation, connecting the world's expertise with the world's most advanced AI systems. This is an opportunity to join early, work on problems that don't yet have established playbooks, and help build the infrastructure powering the future of AI.
Benefits
Bi-annual performance bonus structure
Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
Up to $15k Relocation bonus
$10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
$1.5K monthly stipend for meals
Free Equinox membership
$200 monthly laundry reimbursement
$200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
Health, Dental, Vision insurance
