Senior Software Engineer

Mercor is hiring Senior Software Engineers to work on a project with a leading AI research lab. You'll apply your open-source engineering experience to real software engineering work.

You're a good fit if you:

• Work as a Senior, Staff or Principal Software Engineer (or equivalent senior individual contributor)
• Actively contribute to open-source projects, with merged pull requests or commits in the last 6 months
• Maintain or contribute to projects with real adoption, such as 100+ GitHub stars or clear package usage

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.