Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

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: SWE/LLM Superuser
Type: Contract
Compensation: $42/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Evaluate and improve AI model outputs in complex software engineering tasks.
Develop and refine prompt engineering techniques including chain-of-thought and few-shot methods.
Build and optimize agentic systems with tool-calling loops and multi-step reasoning pipelines.
Manage context effectively using RAG chunking and vector search to prevent degradation.
Critically assess model outputs identifying hallucinations and subtle failures.
Work independently and asynchronously to enhance AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

4 years professional software engineering experience.
Strong proficiency in at least two languages (Python TypeScript Go Rust etc.).
Comfortable with APIs databases cloud infrastructure and application logic.
Expert command of prompt engineering and context management.

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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: SWE/LLM Superuser Type: Contract Compensation: $42/hour L...