Software Engineer, Go

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Go engineer creating difficult repository-exploration tasks for Mercor’s AI-agent training datasets. Investigating production codebases, designing rubrics, and validating runtime reasoning tasks.

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 target subsystem
  • Rewrite engineering questions to challenge frontier 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, and Analyze
  • Document work in the task README
  • Submit tasks for expert review and address reviewer feedback

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 is highly relevant
  • Precise written English
  • Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling
  • Must complete identity verification, background check, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, tax form, and short calibration quiz before task access
  • Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information

Benefits:

  • Fully remote and asynchronous work
  • Payment of $130 per approved task
  • Work performed in Mercor Studio
  • Expert team leads across US, India, and Nigeria time zones
  • Identity verification and background check onboarding
  • Platform access provisioned through Okta
  • Reviewer feedback and expert review for submitted tasks
  • Up to $250 referral reward for each successful referral