Artificial Intelligence Engineer | Upto $42/hr

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: SWE/LLM Superuser Type: Contract Compensation: $42/hour Location: Remote Role Responsibilities Evaluate and improve AI model outputs in complex software engineering tasks. Develop and refine prompt engineering techniques, including chain-of-thought and few-shot methods. Build and optimize agentic systems with tool-calling loops and multi-step reasoning pipelines. Manage context effectively using RAG , chunking, and vector search to prevent degradation. Critically assess model outputs, identifying hallucinations and subtle failures. Work independently and asynchronously to enhance AI model performance . Qualifications Must-Have 4+ years professional software engineering experience. Strong proficiency in at least two languages ( Python ...