System Performance Engineer | Upto $45/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: Performance Engineer (C++, Python, Rust) — IN Type: Contract Compensation: $35–$45/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 40 hours/week Role Responsibilities Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in systems-level optimization, compiler engineering, and runtime performance topics. Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks across multiple specializations and write accurate, well-structured solutions to performance engineering problems. Evaluate performance engineering tasks and solutions and provide clear, written technical feedback. Develop guidelines and detailed rubrics/evaluation frameworks to assess systems design quality across AI workloads . Collaborate with other subject matter ...