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

Software Engineer, Go — Codebase Q&A

Type

Contract

Compensation

$130/hour

Location

Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of

Go

repositories, each pinned to a specific

git

• commit and arriving with an engineering question, positive and negative rubrics, foils, and a golden solution.
• - Explore the repository until you genuinely understand the subsystem in question, including the relevant PR or issue history.
• - Rewrite the task's question to challenge frontier coding agents while ensuring it remains well-defined and fairly answerable.
• - Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers.
• - Run the full validation loop in

Studio

• — Check, Golden, Run, Analyze — and iterate until every stage passes.
• - Document your work in the task

README

and submit for expert review, addressing reviewer feedback on returned tasks.

Qualifications

Must-Have

-

3+ years

of professional software engineering experience with substantial production

Go

• .
• - Ability to navigate a large, unfamiliar

Go

• codebase and explain runtime behavior.
• - Fluency in

Go

• concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library.
• - Precise written English for crafting questions and rubrics.
• - Comfortable with

git

at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling.

Preferred

• -
• Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or

Kubernetes

-ecosystem tooling.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Submit your resume or relevant technical background to get started.
• Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information.

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome - For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com *PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.*