Mercor
Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products
$160K–$500K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
About the job
Builds and operates backend orchestration systems that coordinate automated processing, AI model inference, and expert review to deliver reliable customer outputs.
What you'll do
- Design services and state models for multi-stage workflows, including result reconciliation.
- Build orchestration primitives for retries, recovery, idempotency, and auditable state changes.
- Integrate model inference and build APIs, tooling, reliability, and observability for operating workflows.
What they ask for
- Production backend experience.
- Strong system-design skills, including service boundaries and complexity management.
- Practical experience with distributed-systems concepts such as async workflows, queues, idempotency, retries, and long-running jobs.
- Comfort working with Python, AWS, and Postgres.
Nice to have
- Experience with Temporal or similar workflow engines.
Pay
$160K – $500K (base salary)
Tools
Python, AWS, Postgres, Temporal
AI focus
Integrate model inference into production workflows coordinated with expert review.
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