Engineering Manager, Core Engineering

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