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Mercor

Software Engineer – Agentic Search Systems

Mercor

. Discuss experience designing, optimizing, and evaluating production search systems .

Posted 10/24/2026contractRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $80 - $150 per dayWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing, optimizing, and evaluating production search systems, with a focus on agentic search systems and their infrastructure. Proven ability to quantify impact and improvements in search quality and retrieval for systems used by real users.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Production Search SystemsAgentic Search SystemsSearch Quality EvaluationData Infrastructure ScalingImpact Measurement

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Hard Skills
Search System DevelopmentRelevance OwnershipImpact QuantificationSearch System OptimizationSearch System Evaluation

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Discuss experience designing, optimizing, and evaluating production search systems
  • Explain approaches to measuring search impact and improvements
  • Discuss agentic search systems and related infrastructure
  • Share specific real-world experiences, tradeoffs, and challenges in search system development
  • Participate in a 25-minute conversational interview
  • Potentially participate in a paid 30-minute live conversation with the Mercor team

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience shipping production search systems, especially agentic search systems
  • Experience owning relevance or retrieval for a system used by real users
  • Experience quantifying impact and improvements in search systems
  • Experience building systems related to agentic search
  • Experience scaling data infrastructure for modern search systems
  • Ability to discuss search quality, evaluation, and tradeoffs made in real systems
  • Must complete a 25-minute conversational interview
  • No coding or take-home assignment required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • $200 payment for a 30-minute live conversation, paid on completion of the call
  • Up to $600 for each successful referral through the referral link (referral limits apply)
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request