Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to utilize AI coding agents for various engineering tasks and ensure the quality and performance of model-generated code.

Responsibilities

• 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 outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic backend engineering scenarios
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance

Skills

• 2+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Experience building APIs, distributed systems, microservices, backend platforms, or databases
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools
• Ability to evaluate model-generated code and identify bugs, edge cases, and architectural tradeoffs
• Experience working on large-scale production systems

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