Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier Engineering (NYC)

Build, deploy, and operate systems that sit directly between frontier AI research and data delivery. This high-ownership role involves prototyping quickly with researchers and customers, creating data creation pipelines, and improving model-adjacent infrastructure. You will own projects end-to-end, partnering closely with frontier AI labs and Mercor's internal teams to ship high-impact applied AI solutions.

Strong backend engineering fundamentals in Python, Go, Rust, etc. Experience with model training and inference. Strong grounding in statistical analysis and experimental design for measuring model performance. Familiarity with evaluation methods for large language models. Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively.