Data Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $80/hr

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type: Contract Compensation: $80/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• 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 in model outputs.

• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.

• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 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.

Preferred

• Experience operating large-scale data platforms.

Compensation & Legal

• $400 per accepted task .

• Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume

• AI interview based on your resume

• Submit form

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