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Software Engineer, Discovery

Mercor

Company websitemercor.com (Mercor, opens in new tab)

Base salary $160K  to $225K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA

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  • LocationSan Francisco, CA
  • WorkplaceOn-site
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since

About this job

About Mercor

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

The Role

Project leads at Mercor run and scale distinct data production businesses, each hiring and upskilling thousands of experts, while managing throughput and quality. We're building a self-optimizing automation platform that lets one person run a business of tens-hundreds of millions in revenue.

You'll own major parts of it:

  • Agents that source, vet and staff with minimal human input

  • Pay and incentives models that hire and retain the best experts

  • Experiments and workflows that keep huge projects running smoothly

  • Agents that are accountable for monitoring and driving real revenue goals

Who We're Looking For

We want engineers who thrive under ambiguity, seek out outsized scope and fight for high quality.

Benefits

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure

  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years

  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus

  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)

  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals

  • Free Equinox membership

  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement

  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement

  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Source: Mercor on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($160,000) is above 34% of the 4,208 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site; 100 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,500; the middle half runs from $149,391 to $204,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 5, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Mercor roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Mercor roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Software Engineer, Discovery (this listing)$160K - $225K
Infrastructure Software Engineer$160K - $500K
Healthcare Sales Lead$160K - $200K
Member of Technical Staff, iOS$160K - $400K
Member of Technical Staff, Mercor Enterprise Platform$160K - $500K
Sales Lead$160K - $180K
Senior Product Manager, Payments$160K - $300K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Mercor roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

  1. First observed on the employer's board
  2. Began meeting the published-salary criteria
Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-11-03
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco

USD 160,000 – 225,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary

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