About the role
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: Software Engineer, TypeScript — Codebase Q&A Type: Contract Compensation: $130 per approved task Location: Remote Role Responsibilities Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of TypeScript repositories, each pinned to a specific git commit and arriving with an engineering question, positive and negative rubrics, foils, and a golden solution.Explore the repository until you genuinely understand the subsystem in question, including the relevant PR or issue history.Rewrite the task's question so it defeats frontier coding agents while remaining well-defined and fairly answerable.Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers.Run the full validation loop in Studio — Check, Golden, Run, Analyze — and iterate until every stage passes.Document your work in the task README and submit for expert review, addressing reviewer feedback on returned tasks. Qualifications Must-Have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial production TypeScript.Demonstrated ability to navigate a large, unfamiliar TypeScript monorepo and explain how it behaves at runtime.Fluency in the advanced type system, module resolution, bundlers and transpilers, and the Node and browser runtimes.Precise written English: the questions and rubrics you write are the product.Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling. Preferred Experience with developer tooling, compilers, test frameworks, GraphQL servers, or state machines. Compensation & Legal Payment is per approved task; every task is reviewed by a second engineer and a super reviewer before acceptance. Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete) Submit your resume or relevant technical background to get started.Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information. Resources & Support For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcomeFor any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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