Full-time

Performance Engineer - AI Specialist

Posted by Mercor • San Francisco, California, United States

📍 San Francisco, California 🕒 June 20, 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: Performance Engineer Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $100–$130/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

  • Guide research and engineering teams to improve AI model performance in systems-level optimization, compiler engineering, and runtime performance.
  • Design challenging tasks across multiple specializations and write accurate s...

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