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Software Engineer, Systems & Platform Applied AI

Mercor is hiring for Software Engineer, Systems & Platform Applied AI in San Francisco. Mid level. First seen September 25, 2026; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Mercor
Where
San Francisco
Level
Mid
First seen
September 25, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

As a Software Engineer on Backend Systems, you'll own services in that stack: designing the data models, building the APIs, services, data pipelines that move work through the platform. This is a build role. You'll take a problem that's roughly scoped, make the design calls, ship it to production, and own it afterward. We're hiring for depth in backend fundamentals rather than any particular domain. If you've built and operated real services, handled the schema migration that couldn't take downtime, found the query that fell over at 10x traffic, designed the retry logic that made a flaky…

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