Applied Intelligence Engineer at Mercor

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!