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DevOps Engineer - AI Model Evaluator - AI Trainer

$85 per hour

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: DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
  • Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms , Kubernetes , CI/CD systems , and infrastructure automation .
  • Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
  • Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.
  • Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 2+ years of professional DevOps , SRE , or Cloud Engineering experience.
  • Experience with AWS , Azure , GCP , Kubernetes , Terraform , CI/CD pipelines , or observability tooling.
  • Regular use of AI coding agents like Cursor , Claude Code , Codex , Windsurf , Gemini CLI , or similar tools.
  • Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.

Preferred

  • Experience supporting production-scale systems .

Compensation & Legal

  • $400 per accepted task .
  • Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

Resources & Support

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 a month ago
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