Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A remote contract engineer is sought to evaluate AI-generated solutions for complex infrastructure engineering tasks. The work involves using and assessing advanced coding agents, reviewing implementations across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability, and identifying bugs, reliability risks, edge cases, and failure modes.
Highlights
Fully remote contract work at $85 per hour, with exposure to frontier AI coding agents and challenging real-world cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure engineering scenarios.
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: 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 taskCompensation tied to accepted work.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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