Machine Learning Engineer - Fully Remote · Upto $85/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: ML Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type: Contract Compensation: $85/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex machine learning and AI engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations involving model training , inference systems , MLOps , and LLM applications .
• Identify bugs, edge cases, performance issues, and failure modes.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic ML engineering scenarios.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional machine learning engineering experience.
• Experience building production ML systems , model deployment infrastructure, LLM applications , or AI-powered products .
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated machine learning implementations and technical tradeoffs.

Preferred

• Experience deploying ML systems to production.

Compensation & Legal

• $400 per accepted task
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.