Go Engineer - Codebase Expert - AI Trainer
$130 per unitMercor
Job Description
Job Description
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 D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .
Position: Software Engineer, Go — Codebase Q&A
Type: Contract
Compensation: $130 per task
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of Go repositories, each pinned to a specific git commit and arriving with an engineering question, positive and negative rubrics, foils, and a golden solution.
- Explore the repository until you genuinely understand the subsystem in question, including the relevant PR or issue history.
- Rewrite the task's question to challenge frontier coding agents while ensuring it remains well-defined and fairly answerable.
- Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers.
- Run the full validation loop in Studio — Check, Golden, Run, Analyze — and iterate until every stage passes.
- Document your work in the task README and submit for expert review, addressing reviewer feedback on returned tasks.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial production Go .
- Ability to navigate a large, unfamiliar Go codebase and explain runtime behavior.
- Fluency in Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library.
- Precise written English for crafting questions and rubrics.
- Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling.
Preferred
- Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or Kubernetes -ecosystem tooling.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Submit your resume or relevant technical background to get started.
- Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information.
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