Systems Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

**About the Role** \- Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research lab to support a Frontier Code Agents project. \- Contributors help evaluate and improve frontier AI coding models through structured technical assessments. \- The work focuses on realistic systems engineering workflows and model evaluation. \- Spots are limited and filling quickly on a first come, first serve basis. **What You'll Do** \- Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks. \- Review model-generated code, architecture decisions, and systems implementations. \- Identify bugs, edge cases, performance bottlenecks, and failure modes. \- Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses. \- Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic systems engineering scenarios. **Time Commitment** \- Sprint based project that runs in 12-24 hour stretches based on client requirement. **Compensation** \- $400 per accepted task. \- Typical tasks take approximately 2–3 hours after ramp-up. \- Compensation is tied to accepted work. **Who Should Apply** \- 2+ years of professional systems engineering experience. \- Experience with distributed systems, networking, operating systems, storage systems, infrastructure software, or database internals. \- Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools. \- Ability to evaluate model-generated systems designs and implementations. \- Experience building highly scalable and performance-critical systems is preferred.