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DevOps Engineer AI Model Evaluator

Mercor

Job Location:

San José - Costa Rica

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 11 August 2026 (16 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 8 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms Kubernetes CI/CD systems observability and infrastructure automation.
Identify bugs edge cases reliability issues and failure modes in model outputs.
Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess their strengths and weaknesses.
Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

2 years of professional DevOps SRE or Cloud Engineering experience.
Experience with AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD pipelines or observability tooling.
Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor Claude Code Codex Windsurf Gemini CLI or similar tools.
Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.