Software Engineer — Agentic Search Systems
Listed pay: $80to 150 per task
What the posting lists, in US dollars per task.
10 openings on this one role.
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What happens after you click- Location
- Remote, no country stated
- Terms
- Contract, part-time
- Posted
- · 1 month ago
What the work is
We're looking for engineers who have shipped production search systems (especially agentic ones now that we're in the era of LLMs and agents) and are thinking hard about the requirements and optimizations of those systems.
You've probably:
Owned relevance or retrieval on a system real users depended on
Decided how to quantify impact and improvements with these systems.
Built out systems related to agentic search.
Scaled data infrastructure to power modern search systems.
This is a 25-minute conversational interview. No coding, no take-home. We want to hear how you actually think about search quality, evaluation, and the tradeoffs you've made in real systems. Bring war stories — the messier and more specific, the better.
If your interview stands out, we'll follow up with a paid 30-minute live conversation with our team — $200 for your time, paid on completion of the call.
If that sounds like you, apply and complete the interview. We review every submission.
From the Mercor posting.
Applying on Mercor
What happens after you click
- The link opens this role on Mercor. Sign up and apply from there.
- Upload a resume, complete the assessments the role asks for and verify your work authorisation.
- An AI interview of about 20 minutes. Mercor says it usually takes 2 to 4 weeks to hear back.
- If Mercor hires you, you are paid weekly, on the Wednesday after each work week, via Stripe. Mercor says first payouts are held for 7 days.
- The work is paid by the hour, at the $80–150 this posting lists.
- Remote. The posting names no country, so we have not assumed one applies.
If you're hired through a link here and start paid work, Mercor pays this site a referral fee. Your pay is unaffected.
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