Database Systems Expert PhD

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Database Systems Evaluation Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $2200 per task

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Design challenging self-contained database engineering tasks .
• Build checks for correctness failure handling concurrency retries and regressions .
• Evaluate performance measures such as latency throughput and memory use .
• Write clear grading criteria for engineering judgment .
• Collaborate with technical reviewers to refine and validate tasks.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5 years of hands-on database-engine internals experience or a database-systems PhD .
• Deep experience with storage engines query execution optimization transactions replication or related low-latency systems.
• Strong implementation skills and clear explanations of correctness and performance tradeoffs.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Complete a self-paced technical assessment with recorded verbal responses and a coding exercise.
• Use a laptop or desktop with a camera microphone and entire-screen sharing.
• Have your own editor and terminal ready along with Python 3.8 and a compiler for C C Rust Go or Java .
• The assessment includes a starter kit and public tests.
• Complete the assessment independently without outside AI assistance.

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