Software Engineer, Go
Posted 8hrs ago
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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













