LLM Agent Engineer - Production

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: Agent Engineer
• Type: Contract
• Compensation: $100–$500/hour
• Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build and operate LLM agents in production environments.
• Evaluate agent performance and determine improvements after changes.
• Manage long-running agents, including scheduled jobs and cloud sandboxes.
• Analyze adoption patterns of internal assistants within organizations.
• Focus on internal monoagents, shared memory, and reusable skills.
• Ensure visibility into agent actions and associated costs.
• Qualifications
• Must-Have
• Experience shipping agents used by real users.
• Ability to assess agent performance improvements.
• Knowledge of long-running work and cloud sandboxes.
• Insight into internal assistant adoption within organizations.

Interview Process

• Initial short conversational AI interview ; no coding or take-home tasks.
• Live 30-minute conversation with our team.
• Compensation of $100 to $500 for the conversation, based on experience.
• Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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