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About the Role
As a Research Engineer at Mercor, you will work at the intersection of engineering and applied AI research. You will own benchmarking pipelines, evaluation systems, and failure analysis workflows that directly inform how we train and improve frontier language models. Your work will define how we measure tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning. You will design and run evals, build rubrics and scorers, and turn failure analysis into actionable improvements for post-training, RLVR, and data pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain benchmarks and metrics for tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning; ensure benchmarks scale with training and stay aligned with product and research goals.
- Build and operate LLM evaluation systems end-to-end runs, scoring, dashboards, and reporting, so researchers and applied AI teams can track model performance and compare runs at scale.
- Run systematic failure analysis on model outputs (e.g., wrong tool use, reasoning errors, safety/alignment issues); categorize failure modes, quantify prevalence, and feed findings into reward design, data curation, and benchmark design.
- Create and refine rubrics, automated evaluators, and scoring frameworks that drive training and evaluation decisions; balance rigor with scalability (human vs. model-as-judge, calibration, agreement).
- Quantify data usability, quality, and impact on key benchmarks; use evals and failure analysis to guide data generation, augmentation, and curation.
- Work with AI researchers, applied AI teams, and data producers to align evals with training objectives and to prioritize benchmarks and failure analyses that matter most.
- Operate in a high-iteration research setting with strong ownership of benchmarks, evals, and failure-analysis workflows.
Requirements
- Strong applied research background, with focus on model evaluation, benchmarking, and/or failure analysis.
- Strong coding skills and hands-on experience with ML models and evaluation code.
- Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and backend systems.
- Comfort with APIs, SQL/NoSQL, and cloud platforms for running and storing eval results.
- Ability to reason about model behavior, experimental results, and data quality from evals and failure analyses.
- Excitement to work in person in San Francisco five days a week in a high-intensity, high-ownership environment.
Skills
- model evaluation
- benchmarking
- failure analysis
- ML models
- evaluation code
- data structures
- algorithms
- backend systems
- APIs
- SQL/NoSQL
- cloud platforms
- model behavior reasoning
- experimental results reasoning
- data quality reasoning
Location
- San Francisco
- NYC
- London
Work Type
- In-person
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Industry experience on a post-training or evaluation/benchmarking team (highest priority)
- Publications at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL), especially in evaluation or benchmarking
- Experience building or running LLM evaluations, benchmarks, or failure-analysis pipelines
- Experience with synthetic data generation, rubric design, or RL-style workflows that use evals for reward shaping
- Work samples or code (e.g., eval frameworks, benchmark suites, failure-analysis reports or tooling) that demonstrate relevant skills
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k Relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
About the Company
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
- We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models.
- Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models.
- Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work.
- Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
- Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.
- Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team.
- You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
- Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.