Software Engineer, C – Codebase Q&A

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🕒 September 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 17%

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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

• Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of C repositories pinned to specific git commits • Explore repositories and relevant pull-request or issue history to understand subsystems • Rewrite questions to challenge frontier coding agents while remaining well-defined and answerable • Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers • Run the full validation loop in Mercor Studio: Check, Golden, Run, Analyze • Document work in task READMEs and submit for expert review • Address reviewer feedback on returned tasks

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience • Substantial production C experience • Ability to navigate large, unfamiliar C codebases and explain runtime behavior • Comfort with preprocessor-heavy builds, platform conditionals, manual memory management, and autotools/CMake/Meson build graphs • Experience with databases, cryptography, networking protocols, or systems programming is highly relevant • Ability to use debuggers, sanitizers, tracing, and profilers • Precise written English • Identity verification, background check, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, tax form, and passing a short calibration quiz required before task access • Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a technical assessment or provide additional information

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work • Asynchronous work • Payment per approved task • Access to Mercor Studio • Expert team lead support • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Up to $250 referral payment for each successful referral