Mercor is looking to solve the problem of finding top open-source talent and maintaining high-quality live repositories through contributions and troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Experience as an open-source developer or maintainer
- Comfortable reasoning about Git at a deep level
- Adept at debugging repository states and fixing broken histories without data loss
- 3+ years of software engineering experience in open-source, backend, or DevOps roles (Preferred)
- Demonstrated history of contributions on GitHub, GitLab, or other OSS platforms (Preferred)
- Experience in code review (Preferred)
- Experience in AI/LLM model evaluation (Preferred)
Responsibilities
- Review, maintain, and troubleshoot live repositories
- Reason about Git at a deep level
- Debug repository states and fix broken histories without data loss
- Contribute to or review code in live repositories
- Evaluate AI/LLM models (Bonus)
- Perform code review (Bonus)
- Work on open-source, backend, or DevOps roles (Preferred)
Other
- Fully remote, flexible work
- Competitive compensation
- Consideration of all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics
- Provide reasonable accommodations upon request
