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LLM Agent Engineer - Production - AI Trainer

$100 - $500 per unit

Mercor

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: Agent Engineer
Type: Contract
Compensation: $100–$500 per task
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Build and operate LLM agents in production environments.
  • Evaluate agent performance and determine improvements after changes.
  • Manage long-running agents, including scheduled jobs and cloud sandboxes.
  • Analyze adoption patterns of internal assistants within organizations.
  • Focus on internal monoagents, shared memory, and reusable skills.
  • Ensure visibility into agent actions and associated costs.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Experience shipping agents used by real users.
  • Ability to assess agent performance improvements.
  • Knowledge of long-running work and cloud sandboxes.
  • Insight into internal assistant adoption within organizations.

Interview Process

  • Initial short conversational AI interview ; no coding or take-home tasks.
  • Live 30-minute conversation with our team.
  • Compensation of $100 to $500 for the conversation, based on experience.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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Vacancy posted 5 days ago
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