Research Operations, Code

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Silicon Valley's leading AI labs partner with Mercor to build the high-quality code and reasoning data that trains their frontier models. As a member of Research Ops on the Code team, you will own multi-million-dollar data programs end to end — and ownership here is technical as much as operational. You will:

- Decompose frontier model capabilities. Reason about where a lab's frontier coding model is weak, and translate that into the data that will make it stronger.

- Design the pipeline. Shape how data gets produced — human-expert workflows, synthetic generation, model-in-the-loop systems — not just run a fixed process.

- Drive execution. Turn that design into delivery through a team of expert contributors, under demanding timelines, at a consistently high quality bar.

- Own the customer. Build deep relationships with lab researchers and become the person they trust to tell them what data they actually need.

This role sits at the intersection...