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: DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
- Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms , Kubernetes , CI/CD systems , observability , and infrastructure automation .
- Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes.
- Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
- Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet sprint-based project deadlines.

Qualifications
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 such as 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.

Compensation & Legal
- $400 per accepted task .
- Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form

Resources & Support
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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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