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Software Engineer, Search Systems - Code Data

Mercor is hiring for Software Engineer, Search Systems - Code Data in San Francisco. Mid level. First seen August 14, 2026; open as of November 12, 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 14, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

As a Software Engineer for Code Search & Retrieval, you'll own the architecture and algorithms behind how we search across code tasks: finding similar tasks, routing them to the right models, and turning natural-language questions into precise retrieval. Searching over code is a genuinely hard problem. Identifying similar code tasks—not just similar text—requires retrieval that understands structure, semantics, intent, and difficulty, far beyond what generic embeddings capture. You'll own that end to end: the vision is to search across code tasks at scale, identify and select the correct…

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