Software Engineer, Go
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Job Description
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













