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Data Engineer - AI Model Evaluation

$80 per hour
Full-time

Mercor

About the job

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: Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $80/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex data engineering tasks.
  • Review model-generated implementations involving ETL pipelines , data warehouses , analytics platforms , and distributed data systems .
  • Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
  • Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 2+ years of professional data engineering experience.
  • Experience building ETL pipelines , data warehouses , analytics platforms , or distributed data systems .
  • Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor , Claude Code , Codex , Windsurf , Gemini CLI , or similar tools.
  • Ability to evaluate model-generated data infrastructure and pipeline implementations.

Preferred

  • Experience operating large-scale data platforms .

Compensation & Legal

  • $400 per accepted task .
  • Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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Vacancy posted 22 hours ago
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