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Mercor

Software Engineer – Agentic Search Systems

Mercor

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

Posted 9/24/2026contractRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $80 - $150 per hourWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and optimizing production search systems, with a focus on agentic search and data infrastructure scaling. Proficient in evaluating search quality and quantifying impact for real user systems.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Production Search SystemsAgentic Search SystemsRelevance and Retrieval OwnershipData Infrastructure ScalingSearch Quality Evaluation

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Hard Skills
Search System DesignSearch System OptimizationImpact MeasurementSystem EvaluationData Infrastructure Management
Industry Keywords
Search QualityRelevanceRetrievalAgentic SearchData Infrastructure

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Discuss experience designing, optimizing, and operating production search systems
  • Explain approaches to search quality, evaluation, relevance, retrieval, and measuring impact
  • Describe systems built for agentic search and data infrastructure scaling
  • 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 systems 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 from real systems
  • Must complete a 25-minute conversational interview
  • No coding or take-home assignment required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • $200 payment for completing a paid 30-minute live conversation if the interview stands out
  • Earn up to $600 for each successful referral through the referral link
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request