Infrastructure Engineer

Job Overview

Mercor is at the intersection of labor markets and AI research. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development. Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $1.5 million a day. Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining core infrastructure across cloud environments


• Building Infrastructure-as-Code workflows to automate deployments and scaling


• Improving monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability


• Managing CI/CD pipelines (Github, Spacelift) to ensure seamless deployments


• Supporting disaster recovery planning and ensuring high availability of systems


• Partnering with product and research teams to design architectures that scale with workload demands


• Identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS)


• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform)


• Deep experience with containers and orchestration (Docker)


• Solid understanding of distributed architectures


• Programming languages (Python, Go)


• Proven ability to ship reliable infrastructure in production environments


• Growth mindset and eagerness to thrive in a hyper-growth, high-ownership environment

About Mercor

Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our new San Francisco headquarters.

Benefits

Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
A $20K relocation bonus (if moving to the Bay Area)
A $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
A $1K monthly stipend for meals
Free Equinox membership
Health insurance