# Product Engineer, Talent Experience

**Company:** [Mercor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $130k – $500k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Backend Development, API Design, Data Modeling, Distributed Systems, Relational Databases, React, TypeScript, llm integration, ai coding tools, testing, Debugging, Performance Optimization
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Build backend services, evaluation pipelines, and full-stack features for Mercor's AI-powered talent assessment platform that vets and matches experts for frontier AI labs. Requires 3+ years production software engineering experience with strong backend fundamentals and product intuition; LLM experience is a plus.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship backend services and APIs that power Mercor's assessment platform at scale.
- Own features end-to-end—from product discussions and technical design to implementation, testing, and release.
- Build evaluation pipelines and data models that combine human judgment with AI-powered scoring.
- Contribute across the stack, including the candidate- and expert-facing product surfaces of assessment flows.
- Partner closely with Product, AI, and Data teams to translate assessment research into production systems.
- Leverage modern AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining a high engineering bar.
- Improve the performance, reliability, and observability of assessment infrastructure.
- Solve real customer problems and continuously improve candidate and expert experience.

## Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
- Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, and relational databases.
- Comfortable working across the stack, including modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React/TypeScript) when the product needs it.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Excellent product intuition—you enjoy building products that people actually use.
- Comfortable working in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities.
- High ownership, curiosity, and a bias toward shipping.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features in production.
- Comfortable building products using modern AI development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar) to accelerate software development.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure.
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years.
- Up to $15k Relocation bonus.
- $10K proximity 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.

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