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Applied Intelligence Engineer
Job Type: Hourly Contract (Remote)
Compensation: $80–$100 per hour (USD), depending on experience
Location: Remote
About Mercor:
Mercor partners with top AI labs to connect world-class engineering talent to the most ambitious research projects in AI and automation. Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
About the Role:
Mercor is seeking an Applied Intelligence Engineer to help drive a high-impact Code Review project at a leading AI lab. In this role, you'll contribute to developing, testing, and evaluating next-generation AI agents built to reason about massive, real-world codebases. Your expertise will help set new standards for automated code understanding, reasoning, and review.
Key Responsibilities:
Analyze and map the structure of very large open-source or enterprise-scale repositories
Define and validate terminal-based tasks for agents in code understanding, including:
Navigating dependency trees
Refactoring or documenting modules
Identifying bugs, inconsistencies, or anti-patterns
Performing automated code reviews
Collaborate with agent developers to translate high-level goals into granular benchmarks and tasks
Provide language-specific expertise (Java, Kotlin, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python preferred)
Assess agent performance and deliver feedback on failure modes and improvement areas
Ideal Qualifications:
Significant experience with large-scale codebases (e.g., DataHub, PyTorch, or larger)
Deep familiarity with one or more major programming languages (Java, Kotlin, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python)
Comfortable with multi-language, multi-module architectures, CI/CD, and modularized design
Strong intuition for code quality, design patterns, and architectural tradeoffs
Skilled at navigating, analyzing, and breaking down massive repositories
Excited to advance intelligent agent systems for code review and reasoning
Why This Role:
Work at the intersection of AI and large-scale software engineering
Influence how next-gen AI agents engage with production codebases
Collaborate with top-tier engineers and researchers
Tackle meaningful, real-world engineering challenges
Work Structure & Compensation:
Part-time (up to 20 hours/week), fully remote, async flexibility
Paid weekly via Stripe Connect as an hourly contractor
Mercor is committed to equal opportunity employment and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.
Apply now to help shape the future of automated code review and intelligent engineering systems!