Machine Learning Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

Stack

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 strengths and weaknesses
• ▹Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic ML engineering scenarios

Requirements

• ▹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
• ▹Ability to evaluate model-generated machine learning implementations and technical tradeoffs

Nice to have

• ▹Experience deploying ML systems to production

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Up to $85/hour
• ▹$400 per accepted task
• ▹Fully remote

About the company

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