Software Engineer, Go

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Go engineer creating difficult repository-exploration tasks for Mercor’s AI agents. Investigating production codebases, runtime behavior, rubrics, and validation workflows.

Responsibilities:

  • Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of Go repositories pinned to specific git commits
  • Explore repositories and relevant pull-request or issue history to understand the subsystem
  • Rewrite engineering questions to challenge coding agents while remaining well-defined and answerable
  • Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers
  • Run the full validation loop in Mercor Studio: Check, Golden, Run, Analyze
  • Document work in the task README
  • Submit tasks for expert review and address reviewer feedback
  • Build datasets for AI agents to explore and reason about unfamiliar production Go repositories

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Substantial production Go experience
  • Ability to navigate large, unfamiliar Go codebases and explain runtime behavior
  • Fluency in Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library
  • Comfort reading generated code and build tooling
  • Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or Kubernetes-ecosystem tooling highly relevant
  • Precise written English
  • Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling
  • Identity verification and background check
  • Signed Terms of Work and CIIAA
  • Tax form
  • Passing a short calibration quiz before task access is granted
  • Resume or relevant technical background
  • May be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information

Benefits:

  • Remote, asynchronous work
  • Payment of $130 per approved task
  • Expert team leads across US, India, and Nigeria time zones
  • Identity verification, background check, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, tax form, and calibration quiz required for onboarding
  • Tasks reviewed by a second engineer and a super reviewer before acceptance
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral opportunity earning up to $250 per successful referral