Full-time

Backend Engineer - AI Coding Agent

Posted by Mercor • Chicago, Illinois, United States

📍 Chicago, Illinois 🕒 June 18, 2026

About the Role

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: Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote

Role 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...

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