What jobs is Mercor hiring for right now?

As of Oct 26, 2026, Mercor has 208 open jobs on Alion. 81 of them state a salary (94%). They are posted in 7 cities. 3 allow remote or hybrid work. Its postings score B on the Alion truth index.

Source: Alion Coverage: open vacancies from the employer's own careers board Oct 24, 2026
Open jobs
208
With salary
81 (94%)
Cities
7
Posted in 30 days
15
Median age
70 days

How Mercor hires

Truth index
B 80/100
Median time to fill
57 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
81%
Reposted roles
0%

Mercor scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 16 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 81% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 57 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

What Mercor posted in the last two weeks

Posted in 14 days
7
Busiest day
3 Oct 23, 2026
Days with postings
3 / 14
Oct 11, 2026: 0 posted Oct 12, 2026: 0 posted Oct 13, 2026: 0 posted Oct 14, 2026: 0 posted Oct 15, 2026: 0 posted Oct 16, 2026: 0 posted Oct 17, 2026: 0 posted Oct 18, 2026: 0 posted Oct 19, 2026: 1 posted Oct 20, 2026: 0 posted Oct 21, 2026: 0 posted Oct 22, 2026: 3 posted Oct 23, 2026: 3 posted Oct 24, 2026: 0 posted
Oct 11, 2026 weekend Oct 24, 2026

Which roles Mercor is hiring for

66 Jobs
AI/ML 22 33.3%
HR 10 15.2%
Sales 7 10.6%
Product 7 10.6%
Operations 7 10.6%
Other roles 13 19.7%

Where Mercor is hiring

Mercor hires from 6 offices across 4 countries, holding 121 of its open vacancies between them.

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How the work at Mercor is set up

Work format
In office 83 97%
Remote 3 3%
Level
Lead 18 29%
Senior 15 24%
Junior 12 19%
Middle 9 14%
Staff+ 6 10%
Intern 2 3%
Head+ 1 2%
Employment
Full-Time 79 92%
Contractor 4 5%
Internship 2 2%
Part-Time 1 1%

Salaries in Mercor vacancies

81 of 208 vacancies state a salary (94%). The range below is built from those 81 stated figures only, never from an estimate.

Lower quartile
$185k
Median
$230k
Upper quartile
$425k
$150k$500k

All salaries at Mercor

Open vacancies at Mercor

≈ $138k – $315k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Part-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
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TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
PyTorch
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CUDA
Triton
Megatron-LM
FSDP
TPU
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MLIR
XLA
CUTLASS
KV Cache
Management
Stripe
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$175k – $210k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
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$160k – $185k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • San Francisco
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$300k – $400k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Contractor
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JAX
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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Java
Rust
TypeScript
C#
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LLM Evaluation
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Remote (India) • Contractor
Python
SQL
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Remote (India) • Contractor
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Questions about jobs at Mercor

Is Mercor hiring right now?

Yes. As of Oct 26, 2026, Mercor has 208 open jobs on Alion.

What roles does Mercor hire for?

Mercor is hiring mostly for AI/ML, HR, Sales. The largest group is AI/ML with 22 open vacancies.

How much does Mercor pay?

94% of vacancies at Mercor state a salary. Across those 81 stated figures the range runs from $185k to $425k, with a median of $230k.

Where does Mercor hire?

Mercor has open vacancies in 7 places, most of all in San Francisco, New York, Fremont. It keeps 6 offices with open roles, spread across 4 countries.

Does Mercor offer remote work?

Yes. 3 of the open vacancies at Mercor allow remote or hybrid work, which is 1% of the board.

How long have Mercor vacancies been open?

Half have been on Alion for 70 days or less. 34 vacancies at Mercor have been listed for more than 90 days, and postings of that age are far more often out of date.

How reliable are Mercor job postings?

Mercor scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 16 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 81% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 57 days.

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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