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# AI Infrastructure Specialist - Fully Remote

- **Company:** Mercor, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $187,200.0 - $270,400.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Training Data, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Program Optimization, Software Debugging, DevOps, Distributed Systems, AI Infrastructure, Pytorch, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/uscfa0624b55603a576b499e91145a0541

## About the Role

Must-Have

 * 5+ years of dedicated professional experience in ML infrastructure, MLOps, or ML systems engineering at a recognized, top-tier organization.
 * Hands-on production experience with JAX and/or PyTorch at scale, including distributed training strategies (FSDP, tensor parallelism, pipeline parallelism), memory optimization, and framework-level debugging.
 * Experience writing or optimizing custom GPU kernels using Pallas (JAX) or Triton, including tiling strategies, memory layout design, and kernel fusion.
 * Demonstrable career progression.
 * Ability to engage reliably for at least 30 hours/week during weekdays.
 * Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly.

## Description

* Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in MLOps, training infrastructure, and ML framework-level topics.
 * Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks across multiple specializations. Write accurate and well-structured solutions to MLOps and ML systems problems.
 * Evaluate MLOps tasks and solutions. Provide clear, written technical feedback.
 * Develop guidelines and detailed rubrics/evaluation frameworks to assess training pipeline design, distributed systems reasoning, and kernel-level optimization across tasks.
 * Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data., PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity., Position: Infrastructure Technical Specialist (ITS) FileCloud & AWS Location: 100% remote Duration: 12 Months Infrastructure Technical Specialist (ITS) FileCloud & AWS Key …
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