DevOps Engineer AI Model Evaluator

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms Kubernetes CI/CD systems and infrastructure automation.
• Identify bugs edge cases reliability issues and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2 years of professional DevOps SRE or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD pipelines or observability tooling.
• Regular use of AI coding agents like Cursor Claude Code Codex Windsurf Gemini CLI or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.

Preferred

• Experience supporting production-scale systems.

Compensation & Legal

• $400 per accepted task.
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1