Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
June 02, 2026
Job Description
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: Performance Engineer (C++, Python, Rust)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $90–$120/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Guide research and engineering teams to improve AI model performance in systems-level optimization, compiler engineering, and runtime performance.
- Design challenging tasks across multiple specializations and write accurate so...