DevOps Engineer - AI Model Evaluator

About The Job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $85/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or observability tooling.
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.

Preferred

• Experience supporting production-scale systems.

Compensation & Legal

• $400 per accepted task
• Compensation tied to accepted work.