AI Developer Trace Task Auditor

5 days ago

San Francisco, CA, United States Mercor Full-time

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: AI Developer Trace Task Auditor
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$90/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Evaluate the quality and correctness of AI-assisted software-development traces to enhance model training and evaluation.
  • Assess end-to-end coding sessions produced with AI-assisted developer tools for correctness, workflow soundness, and reasoning.
  • Provide clear, rubric-based written feedback to improve AI model outputs .
  • Review complex coding trajectories for alignment with best practices and correctness.
  • Collaborate with AI research teams to ensure consistency and relevance in training data.
  • Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while enhancing AI model performance .

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 3+ years professional software development.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding tools and agentic/spec-driven workflows ( Cursor , GitHub Copilot , Claude Code , or similar).
  • Strong code-reading and debugging skills across full-stack or backend systems.
  • Ability to evaluate multi-step coding trajectories for correctness and best practice.

Preferred

  • Experience with Kiro or Amazon CodeCatalyst .
  • Prior work evaluating or grading AI-generated code .
  • Contributions to developer tooling .

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

Resources & Support

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  • For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

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