Senior Database Systems Engineer (PhD) - AI Benchmark Lead
Mercor Inc
Mercor is seeking a senior DB engineer to design and evaluate real-world database engineering tasks for AI agents. You will craft challenging, self-contained assignments, implement robust checks for correctness under concurrency and failure, and analyze latency, throughput, and memory usage. Strong communication will be needed to define clear grading criteria and to collaborate with reviewers. The role targets experts with 5+ years in database internals or a related PhD, focusing on storage #J-18808-Ljbffr Mercor Inc
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