What jobs is Mercor hiring for right now?

As of Sep 10, 2026, Mercor has 55 open jobs on Alion. 55 of them state a salary (100%). They are posted in 3 cities. 5 allow remote or hybrid work.

Source: Alion Coverage: open vacancies from the employer's own careers board Sep 9, 2026
Open jobs
55
With salary
55 (100%)
Cities
3
Posted in 30 days
22
Median age
46 days

What Mercor posted in the last two weeks

Posted in 14 days
9
Busiest day
3 Sep 4, 2026
Days with postings
5 / 14
Aug 27, 2026: 3 posted Aug 28, 2026: 0 posted Aug 29, 2026: 0 posted Aug 30, 2026: 0 posted Aug 31, 2026: 0 posted Sep 1, 2026: 1 posted Sep 2, 2026: 0 posted Sep 3, 2026: 0 posted Sep 4, 2026: 3 posted Sep 5, 2026: 0 posted Sep 6, 2026: 0 posted Sep 7, 2026: 0 posted Sep 8, 2026: 1 posted Sep 9, 2026: 1 posted
Aug 27, 2026 weekend Sep 9, 2026

Which roles Mercor is hiring for

55 Jobs
AI/ML 20 36.4%
Backend 17 30.9%
Product 9 16.4%
Security 3 5.5%
Data Science 2 3.6%
Other roles 4 7.3%

Where Mercor is hiring

Mercor hires from 5 offices across 3 countries, holding 107 of its open vacancies between them.

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How the work at Mercor is set up

Work format
In office 50 91%
Remote 5 9%
Level
Senior 11 31%
Junior 9 26%
Staff+ 8 23%
Middle 4 11%
Lead 3 9%
Employment
Full-Time 54 98%
Part-Time 1 2%

Salaries in Mercor vacancies

55 of 55 vacancies state a salary (100%). The range below is built from those 55 stated figures only, never from an estimate.

Lower quartile
$300k
Median
$500k
Upper quartile
$500k
$210k$500k

Open vacancies at Mercor

$350k – $425k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Model Context Protocol
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
EU AI Act
NIST AI RMF
ISO 42001
DevOps
SLI/SLO/SLA
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
Wiz
PCI DSS
SOC 2
HIPAA
FedRAMP
Management
SharePoint
Apply
$80k – $150k per year • In office • Full-Time
Python
Model Context Protocol
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
Computer Use
Apply
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York
Python
Go
Terraform
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
GitHub
Apply
$130k – $400k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco • New York
Python
TypeScript
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
CI/CD
Cybersecurity
Burp Suite
Snyk
Semgrep
CodeQL
OWASP Top 10
CVSS
Threat Modeling
Management
Jira
Apply
$190k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Terraform
GCP
Vercel
Azure
AWS
Incident Management
IAM
Cybersecurity
Okta
Least Privilege
Apply
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • New York
Python
Go
Rust
Synthetic Data
Post-training
Apply
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • New York
Apply
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Copilot
Cursor
Claude
Claude Code
Function Calling
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Copilot
Cursor
Claude
Claude Code
LLM
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$200k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
AI Agents
NLP
LLM
Post-training
LLM Evaluation
arXiv
Apply
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Questions about jobs at Mercor

Is Mercor hiring right now?

Yes. As of Sep 10, 2026, Mercor has 55 open jobs on Alion.

What roles does Mercor hire for?

Mercor is hiring mostly for AI/ML, Backend, Product. The largest group is AI/ML with 20 open vacancies.

How much does Mercor pay?

100% of vacancies at Mercor state a salary. Across those 55 stated figures the range runs from $300k to $500k, with a median of $500k.

Where does Mercor hire?

Mercor has open vacancies in 3 places, most of all in San Francisco, New York, Fremont. It keeps 5 offices with open roles, spread across 3 countries.

Does Mercor offer remote work?

Yes. 5 of the open vacancies at Mercor allow remote or hybrid work, which is 9% of the board.

How long have Mercor vacancies been open?

Half have been on Alion for 46 days or less. 16 vacancies at Mercor have been listed for more than 90 days, and postings of that age are far more often out of date.

How do you apply to Mercor?

Mercor accepts applications through Ashby, so the form opens on that system rather than on Alion.

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