Agent Engineer
MercorLegit · not rated yetPosted on 12 Aug 2026
Pay: $100–500/hr
- Who can apply
- Open worldwide
- Hours
- Hours vary · Freelance
- Where
- Remote, work from home
- Job type
- Expert (SME) review
- Openings
- 1 opening
At a glance: A freelance, remote expert (SME) review job with Mercor. It pays $100–500/hr, with hours that vary. People in any country can apply.
Ongoing · listed since 12 Aug 2026
Mercor keeps this listing open to recruit all year. It is still open, but it isn’t a new opening.
What happens after you click Apply
- You leave AI Trainer HQ and go to Mercor’s own site.
- Upload your résumé on work.mercor.com
- Confirm your work authorization
- Sit the AI interview, which takes about 20 minutes
- Complete any written assessment attached to the listing
- On receiving an offer, sign it, configure payouts and verify your identity
How this pay compares
This job pays more than 100% of the 205 other software engineering jobs on the board that state pay; 0% pay more.
- This job
- $300/hrMiddle of $100–500/hr
- Median on Mercor
- $80/hrFrom 295 other paid jobs
- Median in software engineering
- $65/hrFrom 205 other paid jobs
Requirements
- Qualifications
- Shipped an agent that real users depended on, and been on the hook when it broke
- Figured out how to tell whether an agent got better or worse after a change
- Run agents that outlive a single request: scheduled jobs, long-running work, cloud sandboxes
- Watched your org build an internal assistant, and seen who adopted it and who quietly did not
- Languages
- English
- Equipment
- Computer with a reliable internet connection
About this job
We are looking for engineers who build and operate LLM agents in production, and who have real visibility into how agents are actually used inside a company.
You have probably:
• Shipped an agent that real users depended on, and been on the hook when it broke.
• Figured out how to tell whether an agent got better or worse after a change.
• Run agents that outlive a single request: scheduled jobs, long-running work, cloud sandboxes.
• Watched your org build an internal assistant, and seen who adopted it and who quietly did not.
We are especially interested in the layers most people do not talk about: internal monoagents wired into company data, shared company memory, reusable skills and playbooks, the tool and MCP surfaces agents call, and how anyone sees what agents did and what they cost.
Applying starts with a short conversational AI interview. No coding, no take-home. We want to hear how you actually think about agent reliability, evaluation, and adoption, and the tradeoffs you have made in real systems. Bring war stories. The messier and more specific, the better.
If that screen stands out, we will invite you to a live 30 minute conversation with our team. We pay $100 to $500 for that conversation, paid on completion of the call, with the amount depending on depth of experience.
If that sounds like you, apply and complete the screen. We review every submission.
Listing history
- First seen on our board
- (9 days ago)
- Posted by Mercor
- Last checked
- Source
- Mercor
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