Mercor
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-29, Skillenai has indexed 239 Mercor job postings over the past 90 days (down 24% vs the prior 4 weeks). Mercor appeared in 97 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-29
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Hiring at Mercor
Weekly Mercor job postings — last 90 days
Roles Mercor is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 40 | 16.7% |
| AI Trainer | 15 | 6.3% |
| QA Expert | 8 | 3.3% |
| Backend Engineer | 6 | 2.5% |
| AI Safety Specialist | 5 | 2.1% |
| Bilingual Writer | 5 | 2.1% |
| Platform Engineer | 5 | 2.1% |
| Product Manager | 5 | 2.1% |
| AI Research Participant | 4 | 1.7% |
| Customer Experience (CX) Agent Tester | 4 | 1.7% |
Skills in Mercor job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 62 | 25.9% |
| Go | 28 | 11.7% |
| TypeScript | 27 | 11.3% |
| SQL | 17 | 7.1% |
| Java | 16 | 6.7% |
| Terraform | 15 | 6.3% |
| Kubernetes | 14 | 5.9% |
| Distributed systems | 13 | 5.4% |
| macOS | 13 | 5.4% |
| benchmarking | 12 | 5.0% |
| Rust | 12 | 5.0% |
| Transcription | 12 | 5.0% |
| data modeling | 11 | 4.6% |
| Docker | 10 | 4.2% |
| Git | 10 | 4.2% |
Where Mercor is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 48 | 20.1% |
| New York City | 18 | 7.5% |
| Fremont | 1 | 0.4% |
| Gerasdorf bei Wien | 1 | 0.4% |
| Nan Ti | 1 | 0.4% |
| Satakha | 1 | 0.4% |
| Xonacatlán | 1 | 0.4% |
Who works at Mercor
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- Prompts14%
- model fine-tuning9%
- coherence9%
- adherence to instructions9%
- model training9%
- multimodal outputs9%
- benchmarks model performance9%
- Preference optimization9%
- relevance9%
- training data9%
- Quality9%
- cross-functional teams9%
- actionable feedback9%
- documentation9%
- Preference ranking9%
- preference-based reinforcement learning9%
Share of observed positions at Mercor that list the skill.
Degree level
- Bachelor17
- Master17
- PhD3
- Other Professional1
- Associate1
Field of study
- Computer Science3
- Cybersecurity2
- Mathematics2
- Data Science2
- Artificial Intelligence1
- Business Administration, Economics1
- Cognitive Science and Data Science1
- Data Analytics1
Schools
- University of California, Berkeley6
- Carnegie Mellon University4
- Florida International University3
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2
- University of Florida2
- The University of Texas at Austin2
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
- BrainStation2
Mercor in the news
97 news articles and 92 blog posts mentioned Mercor in the last 90 days.
News
- Warp Sciences emerges from stealth, to apply robotics to drug researchtherobotreport.com · October 28, 2026
- [Media] Antonio Casilli for BloomBerg : data work platforms experts are just the “Cherry on top”diplab.eu · October 16, 2026
- OpenAI Contractors Read Live ChatGPT Conversationstechpresso.co · September 16, 2026
- Adit Abraham, Co-Founder and CEO of Reducto – Interview Seriesunite.ai · October 26, 2026
- Why Is Every AI Data Company On 🔥?aspiringforintelligence.substack.com · October 23, 2026
- AI Efficiency Lab Flapping Airplanes Raises $1B Series A at $6B Valuationen.wowtale.net · October 23, 2026
Blogs
- Anthropic seeks rehearing | AI firms split on UK law | Senators urge AI tests | BoE, IMF fear fraudaipolicydaily.org · October 14, 2026
- How to Get Paid by micro1: $100K+ for Company Data, Up to $200 an Hour for Expertsthe-ai-corner.com · October 21, 2026
- Friends of Clawdicians #18superada.ai · October 19, 2026
- The 2026 Mid-Year State of AI Agent Securitygovynai.com · June 2, 2026
- Offene Modelle von NVIDIA fördern Europas souveräne Intelligenz branchenübergreifendblogs.nvidia.de · October 21, 2026
- 从数据中心到桌面全面开放：NVIDIA 扩展 Nemotron 系列，推出高效的 Super VL 和 Bolt 模型blogs.nvidia.cn · October 15, 2026
How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Mercor over the 90 days ending 2026-10-29; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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