Mercor
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-09-29, Skillenai has indexed 254 Mercor job postings over the past 90 days (up 26% vs the prior 4 weeks). Mercor appeared in 77 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-29
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Hiring at Mercor
Weekly Mercor job postings — last 90 days
Roles Mercor is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 33 | 13.0% |
| Voice Actor | 13 | 5.1% |
| Product Manager | 10 | 3.9% |
| QA Expert | 8 | 3.1% |
| Backend Engineer | 7 | 2.8% |
| DevOps Engineer | 7 | 2.8% |
| Finance Expert | 6 | 2.4% |
| AI Safety Specialist | 5 | 2.0% |
| Bilingual Writer | 5 | 2.0% |
| AI Evaluator | 4 | 1.6% |
Skills in Mercor job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 53 | 20.9% |
| Go | 19 | 7.5% |
| Terraform | 19 | 7.5% |
| TypeScript | 18 | 7.1% |
| Distributed systems | 17 | 6.7% |
| Kubernetes | 16 | 6.3% |
| Transcription | 16 | 6.3% |
| benchmarking | 15 | 5.9% |
| data modeling | 15 | 5.9% |
| SQL | 15 | 5.9% |
| Text-to-speech (TTS) | 14 | 5.5% |
| AWS | 14 | 5.5% |
| Claude Code | 14 | 5.5% |
| voice acting | 13 | 5.1% |
| Cursor | 13 | 5.1% |
Where Mercor is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 62 | 24.4% |
| New York City | 17 | 6.7% |
| Odense | 3 | 1.2% |
| Fremont | 1 | 0.4% |
| Gerasdorf bei Wien | 1 | 0.4% |
| Nan Ti | 1 | 0.4% |
| Satakha | 1 | 0.4% |
| Trondheim | 1 | 0.4% |
Who works at Mercor
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- Prompts14%
- model fine-tuning9%
- coherence9%
- adherence to instructions9%
- model training9%
- multimodal outputs9%
- benchmarks model performance9%
- Preference optimization9%
- relevance9%
- training data9%
- Quality9%
- cross-functional teams9%
- actionable feedback9%
- documentation9%
- Preference ranking9%
- preference-based reinforcement learning9%
Share of observed positions at Mercor that list the skill.
Degree level
- Master5
- PhD5
- Bachelor4
Field of study
- Linguistics1
- Statistics1
- Statistics and Data Science1
- Applied and Computational Mathematics1
- Environmental Biology1
- Fine Arts1
- Information Systems1
- Information Technology Project Management1
Schools
- Rutgers University–New Brunswick2
- BrainStation2
- Wright State University1
- The Beacon School1
- Drexel University1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology1
- University of Massachusetts Amherst1
- Northeastern University1
Mercor in the news
77 news articles and 87 blog posts mentioned Mercor in the last 90 days.
News
- OpenAI Cracks Down on Contractors Using AI for Model Trainingthe420.in · September 27, 2026
- AI Training-Data Startup Micro1 Reportedly Hits $4B Valuationen.wowtale.net · September 26, 2026
- OpenAI fired contractors hired to humanize ChatGPT after they used AI on the jobthecooldown.com · September 26, 2026
- Troppa IA storpia: OpenAI licenzia in tronco i collaboratori che allenano l'IA con l'IAhwupgrade.it · September 25, 2026
- People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AIslashdot.org · September 24, 2026
- XDOF Targets $1.2 Billion Series B Valuation Led by 8VCfortuneherald.com · September 24, 2026
Blogs
- Episode 444: Laura Rippy – Managing Partner & Board Member, Alumni Venturesventurefizz.com · September 14, 2026
- iMerit Scholars vs. Scale AI vs. Mercor vs. Prolific: How to Choose an MTurk Replacementimerit.ai · September 23, 2026
- First Post!kylegetsiv.substack.com · July 22, 2025
- HR Tech 2025 Funding Reviewkylegetsiv.substack.com · January 22, 2026
- Google Offered $10M for a Dying Airline's Data. How Can You Value Yours?towardsdatascience.com · September 21, 2026
- What an AI-Conducted Interview Screen Is and How to Pass Ittechinterview.org · September 16, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Mercor over the 90 days ending 2026-09-29; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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