Machine Learning Engineer | $200/hr Remote | Mercor

Crossing Hurdles is a recruitment firm connecting experienced backend engineers with leading AI research labs to advance intelligent systems through coding benchmark development.

Organization:

Mercor

Position: Backend Software Engineer (Go)

Referral Partner: Crossing Hurdles

Type: Hourly Contract

Compensation: $200/hour median average pay (base $90/hour plus lucrative bonuses per approved task)

Location: Remote

Duration: 1 month

Commitment: Part-time, 10–40 hours/week, fully remote and asynchronous

Role Responsibilities (Training support will be provided)

• Develop and validate coding benchmarks in Go by curating issues, solutions, and test suites from real-world repositories

• Ensure benchmark tasks include comprehensive unit and integration tests for solution verification

• Maintain consistency and scalability of benchmark task distribution

• Provide structured feedback on solution quality and clarity

• Debug, optimize, and document benchmark code for reliability and reproducibility

Ideal Qualifications

• Strong experience as a backend software engineer, machine learning engineer, or applied data scientist

• Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

• Strong proficiency in Go programming language

• Experience with debugging, testing, and validating code

• Comfortable with technical writing and attention to detail

Application process: (Takes 20 min)

• Upload resume

• AI interview based on your resume (15 min)

• Submit form