Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems

📋 Description Design, build, and own the backend services powering Mercor's agentic workflows—orchestration, tool Ship agents into production and iterate on them against real usage: prompts, tools, guardrails, and Build the evaluation infrastructure that tells us whether an agent is actually working—offline Design core services, data models, and APIs that scale with the talent network and stay legible as Make agent decisions observable, auditable, and reversible—so failures are caught early and Partner with product, operations, and AI researchers to decide what should be an agent, what should 🎯 Requirements 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience. Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, service architecture, data modeling, and API design at Hands-on experience building with LLMs in production—agents, tool use, retrieval, or evaluation Comfort with ambiguity: agent systems fail in ways traditional services don't, and the right design A track record of owning systems end to end, from design through production operation. Fluent in using modern AI development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) 🎁 Benefits Generous equity grant vested over 4 years A $20K relocation bonus (if moving to the Bay Area) A $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office) A $1.5K monthly stipend for meals Free Equinox membership Health insurance