Software Engineer, Agents
Full-time
Mercor
Responsibilities
- Own agentic features from scoping through implementation, launch, and iteration.
- Design and ship LLM agents, harnesses, verifiers, tools, prompts, and policies.
- Build Python/FastAPI services and Temporal/Modal pipelines for agent runs and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Develop RL environments, enterprise application simulations, simulated coworkers, and data rooms for frontier-agent tasks.
- Create tooling for statistical analysis, trajectory insights, and automated failure-mode detection.
- Build Next.js/React interfaces and evolve data models, structured context, and audit trails.
- Define agent quality, build evaluations, instrument traces, analyze failures, and improve prompts, tools, guardrails, reliability, cost, latency, and UX.
- Partner with Product, Design, Research, and Operations on agent autonomy and human-approval workflows.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering ability focused on building scalable agentic products.
- Experience or capability across backend, frontend, data infrastructure, orchestration, and LLM-agent systems as reflected in the listed stack.
- Ability to own projects end-to-end and collaborate with researchers, operators, Product, Design, Research, and Operations.
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure.
- Generous equity grant vested over four years.
- Up to $15,000 relocation bonus.
- $10,000 housing bonus for employees living within 0.5 miles of an office.
- $1,500 monthly meal stipend.
- Free Equinox membership.
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement.
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- In-person work five days per week in the San Francisco, New York City, or London office.
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