Research Engineer - San Francisco - Mercor Inc

    Mercor Inc
    Mercor Inc San Francisco

    1 day ago

    $90,000 - $160,000 (USD) per year *
    Description

    Job Summary:Mercor is at the intersection of labor markets and AI research, partnering with leading AI labs to provide essential human intelligence for AI development. As a Research Engineer you will work on engineering and applied AI research to enhance frontier language models through various experimental and data generation workflows.

    Responsibilities:

    • Work on post-training pipelines to understand how datasets rewards and training strategies impact model performance.
    • Design run reward-shaping experiments algorithmic improvements (e.g GRPO DAPO) to improve LLM tool-use agentic behavior real-world reasoning.
    * This salary range is an estimation made by beBee
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