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Research Engineer – Benchmarking

Mercor is hiring for Research Engineer – Benchmarking in San Francisco. Mid level. First seen August 18, 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
August 18, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

NICE TO HAVE - Industry experience on a post-training or evaluation/benchmarking team (highest priority). - Publications at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL), especially in evaluation or benchmarking. - Experience building or running LLM evaluations, benchmarks, or failure-analysis pipelines. - Experience with synthetic data generation, rubric design, or RL-style workflows that use evals for reward shaping. - Work samples or code (e.g., eval frameworks, benchmark suites, failure-analysis reports or tooling) that demonstrate relevant skills. BENEFITS - Bi-annual performance bonus structure…

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