Data Engineer - AI Coding Expert

Responsibilities

• ▹Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex data engineering tasks
• ▹Review model-generated implementations involving ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms and distributed data systems
• ▹Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues and failure modes in model outputs
• ▹Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses
• ▹Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios

Requirements

• ▹2+ years of professional data engineering experience
• ▹Experience building ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms or distributed data systems
• ▹Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI or similar tools
• ▹Ability to evaluate model-generated data infrastructure and pipeline implementations

Nice to have

• ▹Experience operating large-scale data platforms

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Compensation: $80/hour
• ▹$400 per accepted task

About the company

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs; headquartered in San Francisco, with investors including Benchmark, General Catalyst and Peter Thiel.