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# ML Engineer - AI Coding Expert - AI Trainer

- **Company:** Mercor, Inc.
- **Location:** Miami, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $176,800.0
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/uscc545de1fb3ac7987340a5af2a7b179b

## About the Role

Must-Have

 * 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 tools.
 * Ability to evaluate model-generated machine learning implementations and technical tradeoffs.

Preferred

 * Experience deploying ML systems to production.

## Description

* 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 their strengths and weaknesses.
 * Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic ML engineering scenarios.


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