Mercor
Engineering Manager, Fraud & Compliance
$250K–$400K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jun 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience and 3+ years of engineering management experience; also requires experience leading teams through significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree such as Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Statistics
About the job
Leads engineering teams building fraud detection, identity verification, abuse prevention, and compliance systems for Mercor’s global expert marketplace.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the engineering team and set the fraud and compliance roadmap with company partners.
- Build AI-powered systems that detect fraud, score risk, automate decisions, and improve through human feedback.
- Set evaluation frameworks and drive engineering quality, recruiting, and operational rigor.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading software engineering teams.
- Experience leading teams through significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change, with clear examples of personal impact.
Nice to have
- 2+ years delivering infrastructure in fraud, trust & safety, risk, identity, payments, abuse prevention, or another adversarial domain.
- 2+ years working with machine learning, AI systems, decision engines, or risk-scoring platforms.
Pay
$250K – $400K (base salary)
Tools
LLM-based decision engines, scoring models
AI focus
Leads development of AI-powered fraud detection, including LLM-based decision engines, scoring models, review workflows, and evaluation pipelines.
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