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# ML Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

- **Company:** Mercor, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $176,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Claude Code, AI Coding Agents, Machine Learning Operations, Google Gemini
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_98c3687c

## 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.