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