Software Engineer, Discovery
San Francisco, CAFull-time$160–225K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Mercor is building an automation platform for data production businesses, with project leads managing expert hiring, upskilling, throughput, and quality. The Software Engineer, Discovery will own major parts of the platform, including agents for sourcing and staffing, pay and incentive models, project workflows, and revenue monitoring. The company works in person five days a week in its San Francisco, New York City, or London offices.
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About Mercor
Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices. The Role Project leads at Mercor run and scale distinct data production businesses, each hiring and upskilling thousands of experts, while managing throughput and quality. We're building a self-optimizing automation platform that lets one person run a business of tens-hundreds of millions in revenue. You'll own major parts of it:
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Agents that source, vet and staff with minimal human input
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Pay and incentives models that hire and retain the best experts
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Experiments and workflows that keep huge projects running smoothly
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Agents that are accountable for monitoring and driving real revenue goals
Who We're Looking For We want engineers who thrive under ambiguity, seek out outsized scope and fight for high quality.
Benefits
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Bi-annual performance bonus structure
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Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
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Up to $15k Relocation bonus
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$10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
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$1.5K monthly stipend for meals
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Free Equinox membership
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$200 monthly laundry reimbursement
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$200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
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Health, Dental, Vision insurance
How this job compares
Set against the 41,311 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$160–225K/yr
- California median$165–245K/yr7,675 salary ranges
- US median$134–215K/yr32,980 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $193K, is 6% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,550 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,311 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (33,552 postings).
- Education
- 14,305 of the 41,311 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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