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Overview

Mercor is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2023. The company operates a platform that connects a global network of domain experts, including physicians, lawyers, and engineers, with AI labs to provide high-quality data for reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and model evaluation. It develops specialized benchmarks like APEX to measure model performance on economically valuable tasks and provides enterprises with tools to monetize their workflow data for AI training.

Technologies

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Tech DNA
Python
SQL
TypeScript
React.js
Next.js
LangChain
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Redis
AWS
Azure
GCP
LLM
Claude
VLM
AI/ML
Python
SQL
C++
MATLAB
LLM
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
Post-training
LLM Guardrails
PostgreSQL
AWS
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Snowflake
Copilot
Synthetic Data
Kubernetes
GitHub
dbt
LLM Evaluation
Function Calling
Redis
Terraform
Fine-tuning
OpenAI Codex
ElasticSearch
Platform Engineering
Embeddings
RAG
LangChain
LangGraph
LangSmith
Multimodal AI
NLP
Pydantic
DuckDB
MySQL
Google BigQuery
Datadog
LiteLLM
Data Augmentation
Computer Vision
VLM
Windsurf
ChatGPT
Quantization
Semantic Search
JAX
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
GRPO
Model Context Protocol
Structured Outputs
Recommender Systems
Semantic Search
SFT
Databricks
FAISS
OpenSearch
Azure
GCP
CloudFormation
Pulumi
CI/CD
Docker
Vector
SLI/SLO/SLA
IAM
AutoGPT
Chain-of-Thought
Incident Management
Frontend
TypeScript
React.js
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
AutoCAD
Security
JavaScript
Rust
Go
Falco
FedRAMP
ISO 27001
Prisma Cloud
SentinelOne
SOC 2
Wiz
Least Privilege
Burp Suite
CodeQL
CVSS
OWASP Top 10
Semgrep
Snyk
Threat Modeling
PCI DSS
Okta
Backend
Node JS
C#
Java
Kotlin
Django
FastAPI
Apache Kafka
Rest API
RabbitMQ
Other
Swift
ETL/ELT
A/B Testing
SwiftUI
Foxglove Studio
ROS
Tableau
Airtable
Slack
Jetpack Compose
Jira
Google Workspace
Stack modernity Cutting-edge AI adopter
85/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Python 25 jobs Required
$500k +178% vs market
AI Agents 17 jobs Required
$500k +126% vs market
LLM 17 jobs Required
$500k +150% vs market
SQL 12 jobs Required
$275k +95% vs market
Post-training 8 jobs Required
$500k +67% vs market
Human-in-the-Loop 8 jobs Required
$500k +127% vs market
TypeScript 7 jobs Required
$500k +178% vs market
AWS 7 jobs Required
$500k +170% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
21%
JavaScript
17%
CI/CD
17%
AWS
17%
SQL
16%
Kubernetes
15%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
SFT Aug 2026
Semantic Search Aug 2026
Recommender Systems Aug 2026
A/B Testing Aug 2026
Structured Outputs Aug 2026
Model Context Protocol Aug 2026
Least Privilege Aug 2026
IAM Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$500k
Typical range
$180k – $600k
Open positions
48
27 Jobs
Junior 18.5%
Middle 14.8%
Senior 29.6%
Staff 37%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 5 $500k $210k – $500k
Middle 4 $230k $210k – $500k
Senior 8 $300k $180k – $500k
Staff 10 $413k $300k – $600k
Highest paying role Member of Technical Staff, Deeptune Environments $600k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
53
8 opened / 13 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
49 days
faster than 30% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
32%
Product
25%
AI/ML
23%
Hardware
5%
Analytics
5%
Management
5%
Actively hiring for Backend (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Fremont Aug 2026
Added Okta to stack Aug 2026
Added Incident Management to stack Aug 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack Aug 2026
Added Slack to stack Aug 2026
Added Kotlin to stack Aug 2026
Added Jetpack Compose to stack Aug 2026
Added Tableau to stack Aug 2026
Added Google BigQuery to stack Aug 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack Aug 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Aug 2026
Added RabbitMQ to stack Aug 2026

Jobs

Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems

Verified live · 3 hours ago 1 day ago
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
Cursor
Function Calling
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
GitHub
Apply

Product Engineer, Talent Experience

Verified live · 3 hours ago 1 day ago
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
TypeScript
JavaScript
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
Cursor
LLM
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
Apply

Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks

Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago
$200k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
LLM
NLP
LLM Evaluation
Post-training
AI Agents
Apply

Software Engineer, Agents

Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • New York
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Django
FastAPI
Pydantic
Databases
DuckDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Snowflake
AI/ML
LangChain
LangGraph
LangSmith
LLM
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Tailwind CSS
DevOps
Datadog
Kubernetes
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Software Engineer, Applied AI

Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • New York
Go
Python
Rust
Synthetic Data
Post-training
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Software Engineer, Platform

Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • New York
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Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products

Verified live · 3 hours ago 5 days ago
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • New York
Python
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
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Software Engineer, Marketplace

Verified live · 3 hours ago 6 days ago
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Go
Python
Apache Kafka
ElasticSearch
PostgreSQL
Redis
DevOps
Kubernetes
Terraform
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Senior Product Manager, Payments

Verified live · 3 hours ago 7 days ago
$180k – $300k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
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Product Manager, APEX

Verified live · 3 hours ago 14 days ago
$180k – $300k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
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Product Operations Manager, Research Services

Verified live · 3 hours ago 14 days ago
$140k – $210k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
LLM
AI Agents
Post-training
SFT
DevOps
SLI/SLO/SLA
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Research Engineer – Benchmarking

Verified live · 3 hours ago 15 days ago
$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
SQL
LLM
Synthetic Data
Post-training
AI Agents
Function Calling
Apply
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