AI jobs for software engineers
23 open roles, paying up to $200/hr. The work usually means designing coding tasks, reviewing AI-written code and explaining where it falls short.
AI labs need people with real experience to teach and test their models. These roles are mostly remote, and many are flexible or part-time, so they can sit alongside your main job. Check each listing for its location, schedule and requirements. Here's how this kind of work goes.
Legacy Codebase Migration Expert
Mercor is partnering with a frontier AI research lab to engage experienced software engineers with deep expertise in legacy codebase migration and modernisation. We are looking for engineers who have personally executed…
Open Source Maintainer / Core Contributor – Software Engineer
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models. Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI…
Software Engineering Expert
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for software engineering judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.…
Software Engineer — Agentic Search Systems
We're looking for engineers who have shipped production search systems (especially agentic ones now that we're in the era of LLMs and agents) and are thinking hard about the requirements and optimizations of those…
Frontend Engineer Talent Network
Join our Frontend Engineer Expert Network to connect with leading AI labs and companies seeking your expertise. This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background and interests. Once…
Backend Engineer Talent Network
Join our Backend Engineer Expert Network to connect with leading AI labs and companies seeking your expertise. This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background and interests. Once…
Full-Stack Engineer Talent Network
Join our Full-Stack Engineer Expert Network to connect with leading AI labs and companies seeking Full-Stack Engineering expertise. This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background…
Software Engineer – Retail Investing Platforms (Paid Expert Interview)
Mercor is seeking experienced software engineers at companies that serve retail investors for a short, paid expert interview on behalf of a leading AI company building financial intelligence products. In a single 45–60…
MLOps Engineer, LLM Performance (Kernels, Profiling, Serving)
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models. Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI…
Software & Firmware Engineering Experts
Mercor is seeking experienced Software and Firmware Engineers to support an advanced engineering and AI research initiative with a leading technology organization. We are looking for deeply hands-on engineers who have…
Software Engineer (AI-Native Platform & Integrations)
This is an open application for future contract opportunities that match your background and interests. Once you complete your profile and pass our AI interview, you'll be eligible for relevant projects as they become…
Engineering & Software Domain Expert
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models. We are hiring a senior engineering and software domain…
AI Developer Trace Task Auditor
Evaluate the quality and correctness of AI-assisted software-development traces used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess end-to-end coding sessions produced with AI-assisted developer tools —…
SWE-Bench Task Auditor
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and reproducibility of software-engineering benchmark tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess repository-level tasks, reference patches, test…
ML Challenge Task Auditor
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and methodological rigor of applied machine-learning tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess experiment design, model-selection reasoning, and…
AWS Serverless & Infrastructure-as-Code Task Auditor
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and cloud-architecture soundness of AWS serverless and infrastructure-as-code tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess multi-service serverless…
Kubernetes Task Auditor
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and production-readiness of Kubernetes tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess cluster-operations scenarios, manifest correctness, and failure-mode…
Trainium (NKI) Kernel Expert
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and hardware-appropriateness of Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) development tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess CUDA→NKI migration fidelity,…
GPU Kernel Expert
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and completeness of GPU/accelerator kernel development tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess numerical correctness, performance-benchmarking…
CVE Vulnerability Expert
Evaluate the quality, fidelity, and completeness of vulnerability-reproduction and remediation tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess whether CVE reproductions are faithful, fixes are…
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js, TypeScript, Rust)
Join a high-scale consumer platform team as a Senior Backend Engineer, building the services behind digital experiences used by millions of people every day. We're partnering with a large enterprise technology…
Office & Productivity Software Expert
The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for judgment about how office and productivity software is actually used. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded…
Software Developers (Must own MacBook)
Mercor is looking for software developers with 2-3 years of professional coding experience, or currently enrolled postgrad Computer Science students, to support a research project with a leading AI lab. You will work…
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