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Product Engineer, Talent Experience

Mercor · San Francisco

onsitemid$130,000–$500,000Posted Aug 31, 2026TypeScriptReactBackend APIsData ModelingDistributed SystemsLLM IntegrationSQL

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**Product Engineer, Talent Experience** **About Mercor** Mercor organizes human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts are paid to train frontier AI models, and we're creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. **About the Role** As a Member of Technical Staff on the Talent Experience team, you'll build systems that evaluate skills and expertise at scale. You'll own backend-heavy, full-stack work across our assessment platform—designing evaluation pipelines, building AI-assisted interview services, and shipping product surfaces used by tens of thousands daily. **Key Responsibilities** • Design and ship backend services and APIs powering our assessment platform • Own features end-to-end: product discussions, technical design, implementation, testing, and release • Build evaluation pipelines combining human judgment with AI-powered scoring • Contribute across the stack, including candidate and expert-facing surfaces • Partner with Product, AI, and Data teams to translate research into production • Improve performance, reliability, and observability of assessment infrastructure **What We're Looking For** • 3+ years building production systems • Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, databases • Comfortable across the stack (React/TypeScript experience a plus) • LLM integration experience in production is a strong plus • Experience with modern AI development tools (Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, etc.) • Strong software engineering fundamentals and product intuition • High ownership, curiosity, and bias toward shipping **Why This Role Matters** Build evaluation systems matching thousands of AI experts to critical work. Join a small, high-velocity team with end-to-end ownership and rapid career progression. **Benefits** Bi-annual bonuses • Generous equity • Up to $15k relocation • $10k proximity bonus • $1.5k monthly meals • Free Equinox • Wellness reimbursements • Health/Dental/Vision **Location:** San Francisco, NYC, or London (in-person, 5 days/week)

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