DevOps Engineer - AI Model Evaluator - AI Trainer

Mercor, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Part-time (≤ 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$176,800.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineering Continuous Integration Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements) DevOps Reliability Engineering Datadog Google Cloud Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
+1 more
Terraform

Job description

  • Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
  • Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and infrastructure automation.
  • Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
  • Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.
  • Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Requirements

Do you have experience in AI tools proficiency?, Must-Have

  • 2+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or observability tooling.
  • Regular use of AI coding agents like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
  • Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.

Preferred

  • Experience supporting production-scale systems.

Benefits & conditions

3.93.9 out of 5 stars San Francisco, CA Remote $85 an hour - Part-time

About the company

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.

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