About the job
About Mercor
At Mercor, we're revolutionizing the future of work. We collaborate with top AI labs and enterprises to deliver the human insights crucial for AI development.
Our extensive talent network trains cutting-edge AI models, much like educators nurture students: by imparting invaluable knowledge, experience, and context that transcends mere code. Currently, over 30,000 specialists in our network collectively generate more than $2 million daily.
Mercor is pioneering a new category of work where expertise fuels AI progress. Achieving this vision requires a dynamic, fast-paced, and deeply dedicated team. You’ll collaborate with researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of transforming systems that redefine society.
As a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion, we operate on-site five days a week in our offices located in San Francisco, NYC, or London.
About the Role
In your role as a Machine Learning Engineer on the growth team, you will develop the infrastructure that powers Mercor’s hiring engine: from indexing and global discovery to cross-platform sourcing and engagement, real-time scoring and personalization, and high-throughput conversion pipelines that transform interest into hires.
What You Will Build:
Low-latency ranking and matching pipelines that process thousands of signals.
Global off-platform people search, job distribution, and ad/acquisition infrastructure.
Production ML and feature infrastructure for personalization and incentive modeling.
Real-time event and data pipelines, high-throughput APIs, and observability for mission-critical services.
Who We Are Looking For: We seek engineers with a strong background in building distributed backends or ML infrastructure, demonstrated ownership of large-scale matching, indexing, recommender, or search systems; robust instincts for production, and experience with high-throughput services, monitoring, and reliability.
Why Join Us: If you are looking for backend work that combines ML, distributed systems, and real revenue impact, the Growth team is where you belong.
Tech Stack: Python, Go, embeddings, fine-tuning, RAG, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Terraform

