AI/ML Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

Role Overview

Mercor is hiring an ML Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for a fully remote contract role. You will use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex machine learning and AI engineering tasks.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to implement and evaluate ML/AI engineering work
• Review model-generated implementations across:
  • model training
  • inference systems
  • MLOps
  • LLM applications
• Identify and debug issues including:
  • bugs and edge cases
  • performance problems
  • failure modes in AI models
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess tradeoffs
• Apply strong engineering judgment to realistic ML engineering scenarios

Qualifications

Must-have

• 2+ years of professional machine learning engineering experience
• Experience building production ML systems and/or deployment infrastructure
• Experience with LLM applications or AI-powered products
• Regular hands-on use of AI coding agents (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar)
• Ability to evaluate model-generated ML implementations and technical tradeoffs

Preferred

• Experience deploying ML systems to production

Contract & Compensation

• Contract rate listed as up to $85/hour
• Additionally stated compensation: $400 per accepted task (tied to accepted work)

Location

• Remote (posting also lists New York, NY)