Engineering Manager, Core Engineering
Lead engineering for fraud detection, identity verification, and compliance systems at a Series C AI infrastructure company. Build AI-powered risk and decision systems while managing a high-performing backend team.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers responsible for fraud detection, identity verification, abuse prevention, and platform integrity
- Define and execute Mercor's fraud and compliance engineering roadmap in partnership with product, operations, and company leadership
- Build systems that generate fraud signals, evaluate risk, make automated decisions, and continuously improve through human review and feedback loops
- Drive the development of AI-powered detection systems, including LLM-based decision engines, scoring models, and review workflows
- Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure detection performance, confidence calibration, false positive/negative tradeoffs, and business impact
- Recruit exceptional engineers and raise the talent bar across the organization
- Partner closely with product, operations, and company leadership
- Drive engineering excellence, velocity, and operational rigor in an adversarial, fast-moving domain
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams
- Experience leading teams through periods of significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change, with clear examples of the impact you've personally driven
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- 2+ years delivering infrastructure for fraud, trust & safety, risk, identity, payments, abuse prevention, or other adversarial domains
- 2+ years working with machine learning, AI systems, decision engines, or risk-scoring platforms
Benefits
- Generous equity, vested over 4 years
- Up to $15K relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of the office)
- $1,500/month meals stipend
- Free Equinox membership
- $200/month laundry reimbursement
- $200/month personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
Skills
Backend Engineering, Fraud Detection, Identity Verification, Risk Scoring, Llm-Based Decision Engines, Machine Learning, Ai Systems, Abuse Prevention, Trust & Safety, Production Systems At Scale
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