Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

Pay$85/hr
PlatformMercor
EligibilityUS only
CategorySoftware
CommitmentContract
First seen2026-07-29
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About this role

About the Role - Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research lab to support a Frontier Code Agents project. - Contributors help evaluate and improve frontier AI coding models through structured technical assessments. - The work focuses on realistic software engineering workflows and model evaluation rather than traditional software development. - Spots are limited and filling quickly on a first come, first serve basis. What You'll Do - Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks. - Review model-generated code for correctness, quality, maintainability, and performance. - Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes in model outputs. - Compare

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