Software Engineer – Agentic Search Systems

🕒 September 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $80 - $150 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Mercor

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

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📋 Description

• Discuss experience designing, optimizing, and operating production search systems • Explain approaches to search quality, evaluation, relevance, retrieval, and measuring impact • Describe systems built for agentic search and data infrastructure scaling • Participate in a 25-minute conversational interview • Potentially participate in a paid 30-minute live conversation with the Mercor team

🎯 Requirements

• Experience shipping production search systems, especially agentic search systems • Experience owning relevance or retrieval for systems used by real users • Experience quantifying impact and improvements in search systems • Experience building systems related to agentic search • Experience scaling data infrastructure for modern search systems • Ability to discuss search quality, evaluation, and tradeoffs from real systems • Must complete a 25-minute conversational interview • No coding or take-home assignment required

🏖️ Benefits

• $200 payment for completing a paid 30-minute live conversation if the interview stands out • Earn up to $600 for each successful referral through the referral link • Reasonable accommodations upon request