What jobs is Mercor hiring for right now?

As of Oct 28, 2026, Mercor has 207 open jobs on Alion. 87 of them state a salary (42%). They are posted in 7 cities. 125 allow remote or hybrid work. Its postings score A on the Alion truth index.

Source: Alion Coverage: open vacancies from the employer's own careers board Oct 28, 2026
Open jobs
207
With salary
87 (42%)
Cities
7
Posted in 30 days
80
Median age
42 days

How Mercor hires

Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
76 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
27%
Reposted roles
0%

Mercor scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 27% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 76 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
29
Busiest day
6 Oct 27, 2026
Days with postings
11 / 14
Oct 15, 2026: 1 posted Oct 16, 2026: 3 posted Oct 17, 2026: 2 posted Oct 18, 2026: 1 posted Oct 19, 2026: 3 posted Oct 20, 2026: 1 posted Oct 21, 2026: 2 posted Oct 22, 2026: 6 posted Oct 23, 2026: 3 posted Oct 24, 2026: 1 posted Oct 25, 2026: 0 posted Oct 26, 2026: 0 posted Oct 27, 2026: 6 posted Oct 28, 2026: 0 posted
Oct 15, 2026 weekend Oct 28, 2026

Which roles Mercor is hiring for

121 Jobs
AI/ML 34 28.1%
Industrial Engineering 20 16.5%
Marketing 14 11.6%
Finance 14 11.6%
Sales 12 9.9%
Other roles 27 22.3%

Where Mercor is hiring

Mercor hires from 6 offices across 4 countries, holding 120 of its open vacancies between them.

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How the work at Mercor is set up

Work format
Remote 125 60%
In office 82 40%
Level
Lead 18 27%
Senior 15 23%
Junior 12 18%
Middle 10 15%
Staff+ 6 9%
Intern 4 6%
Head+ 1 2%
Employment
Full-Time 111 54%
Contractor 91 44%
Internship 4 2%
Part-Time 1 0%

Salaries in Mercor vacancies

87 of 207 vacancies state a salary (42%). The range below is built from those 87 stated figures only, never from an estimate.

Lower quartile
$180k
Median
$230k
Upper quartile
$420k
$70k$500k

All salaries at Mercor

Open vacancies at Mercor

$100k per year · In office · Full-Time · Dubai
NLP
LLM
Apply
$140k per year · In office · Internship · San Francisco
SQL
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Synthetic Data
Post-training
Apply
$140k per year · In office · Internship · San Francisco
SQL
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Data Augmentation
Synthetic Data
GRPO
Post-training
Machine Learning
Apply
Remote (United States) · Contractor
Apply
$70k per year · Remote (United States) · Contractor · 1+ year exp · United States
Stripe
Apply
$140k – $220k per year · Remote (United States) · Contractor · 4+ years exp · United States
Stripe
Apply
$200k – $400k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
C++
vLLM
Quantization
PyTorch
LLM
Ray
TPOT
CUDA
Triton
Megatron-LM
TPU
NCCL
InfiniBand
NVLink
AWS Trainium
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
DevOps
Puppet
Ansible
GCP
Datadog
Prometheus
SLURM
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Configuration Management
AIOps
HPC
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Questions about jobs at Mercor

Is Mercor hiring right now?

Yes. As of Oct 28, 2026, Mercor has 207 open jobs on Alion.

What roles does Mercor hire for?

Mercor is hiring mostly for AI/ML, Industrial Engineering, Marketing. The largest group is AI/ML with 34 open vacancies.

How much does Mercor pay?

42% of vacancies at Mercor state a salary. Across those 87 stated figures the range runs from $180k to $420k, 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. 125 of the open vacancies at Mercor allow remote or hybrid work, which is 60% of the board.

How long have Mercor vacancies been open?

Half have been on Alion for 42 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 A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 27% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 76 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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