First seen by our source: 20 days ago
LLM Systems Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $500/task Task based
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring an Agent Engineer on a remote contract basis, paid $100 to $500 per task. The role builds and operates LLM agents in production, evaluates their performance, manages long-running agents with scheduled jobs and cloud sandboxes, and analyzes how internal assistants are adopted.
Responsibilities:
- Build and operate LLM agents in production
- Evaluate agent performance after changes
- Manage long-running agents with scheduled jobs and cloud sandboxes
- Analyze adoption of internal assistants
- Ensure visibility into agent actions and costs
Requirements summary:
- Experience shipping agents used by real users
- Ability to assess agent performance improvements
- Knowledge of long-running work and cloud sandboxes
- Insight into internal assistant adoption
Tools & skills
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- 2026-10-18
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- 2026-10-18
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Job details
| Department | Software development |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Mercor
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We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
Full company description
Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
- LinkedIn followers
- 654,507
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 5,250
- Reported office locations
- San Francisco, California 94105, US
- Business categories
- Employment
- Software
- Recruiting
- Data Collection and Labeling
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
- Other recorded names
- Mercor
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- Reported total investment
- 483,600,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2023 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1,626 |
| View page |
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: Agent Engineer
Type: Contract
Compensation: $100–$500 per task
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Build and operate LLM agents in production environments.
- Evaluate agent performance and determine improvements after changes.
- Manage long-running agents, including scheduled jobs and cloud sandboxes.
- Analyze adoption patterns of internal assistants within organizations.
- Focus on internal monoagents, shared memory, and reusable skills.
- Ensure visibility into agent actions and associated costs.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Experience shipping agents used by real users.
- Ability to assess agent performance improvements.
- Knowledge of long-running work and cloud sandboxes.
- Insight into internal assistant adoption within organizations.
Interview Process
- Initial short conversational AI interview; no coding or take-home tasks.
- Live 30-minute conversation with our team.
- Compensation of $100 to $500 for the conversation, based on experience.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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