Software Engineer — Agentic Search Systems
MercorLegit · not rated yetPosted on 1 Aug 2026
Pay: $80–150/hr
- Who can apply
- Open worldwide
- Hours
- 40 hrs/week · Freelance
- Where
- Remote, work from home
- Job type
- Coding
- Openings
- 10 openings
At a glance: A freelance, remote coding job with Mercor. It pays $80–150/hr for 40 hours a week. People in any country can apply.
Ongoing · listed since 1 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 90% of the 205 other software engineering jobs on the board that state pay; 10% pay more.
- This job
- $115/hrMiddle of $80–150/hr
- Median on Mercor
- $80/hrFrom 295 other paid jobs
- Median in software engineering
- $65/hrFrom 205 other paid jobs
Requirements
- Qualifications
- Not specified in the listing
- Languages
- English
- Equipment
- Computer with a reliable internet connection
About this job
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.
Listing history
- First seen on our board
- (9 days ago)
- Posted by Mercor
- Last checked
- Source
- Mercor
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