people · May 22, 2026
Mercor Hiring Software Engineers at $50-$70 per Hour for Frontier AI Labs
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Mercor is hiring Enterprise Software Engineers for fully remote contract roles paying $50 to $70 per hour to work with leading AI research labs and frontier technology teams. The positions involve enterprise engineering tasks across large-scale production systems, toolchains and systems programming in C and Rust, JVM ecosystem work with Kotlin, Scala, Swift, and C#, plus production scripting in Ruby, PHP, and Perl, and scientific computing with R. Candidates need strong expertise in at least one major programming domain, deep understanding of systems and architecture, and the ability to work independently on scalability and performance optimization. Mercor is backed by investors including Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, Adam D’Angelo, Benchmark, and General Catalyst.