Data Engineer – Coding Agent Experience

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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

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex data engineering tasks • Review model-generated implementations involving ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, and distributed data systems • Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues, and failure modes • Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses • Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios • Participate in sprint-based projects running in 12–24 hour stretches based on client requirements

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of professional data engineering experience • Experience building ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, or distributed data systems • Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools • Ability to evaluate model-generated data infrastructure and pipeline implementations • Experience operating large-scale data platforms preferred • Must be engaged as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Flexible schedule / work completed on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Competitive pay • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Referral compensation of up to $320 for each successful referral