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Enterprise Applied AI Leader

AI summary of the role

Lead the forward-deployed engineering team for Mercor's Enterprise AI platform, deploying production-grade AI systems for Fortune 500 customers.

What you’ll do

  • Partner directly with customers to align technical requirements with business objectives, acting as the critical bridge between engineering and Sales, GTM, and delivery
  • Co-lead a Technical team with an Operations counterpart to deliver scalable, production-ready AI systems for enterprise customers
  • Translate ambiguous workflows into scalable AI-powered solutions, integrating across enterprise systems, APIs, internal tools, and data sources
  • Guide the deployment of AI workflows, agent orchestration, evaluation systems, and continual learning feedback loops

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years building production software systems, with strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, Go, Java, Rust, or similar languages
  • 2+ years directly managing technical teams
  • Proven track record leading customer-facing technical delivery for enterprise software, AI products, or developer platforms
  • Deep experience designing distributed systems and cloud-native applications

Technologies

Python · Go · Java · Rust · distributed systems · cloud-native · agent orchestration · LLM · evaluation systems · workflow automation

About Mercor

Marketplace matching domain experts (doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers) with AI labs to generate post-training data, evaluations, and reinforcement learning signal.

Series C

Source and classification

Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:

Deployed Engineering team of our Enterprise AI organization) and operates separately from Mercor's expert network. We're hiring Applied AI Leads to build and scale the technical delivery team responsible for deploying Mercor's Enterprise AI platform for enterprise customers. This is a highly customer-facing engineering leadership role that is tightly integrated with our Sales/GTM and delivery teams. You’ll lead engineers in the end-to-end technical delivery of production-grade AI systems, working hand-in-hand with customer stakeholders to solve technically complex business problems and contributing to the overall commercial relationship with the customer. Success is measured by customer outcomes and overall commercial impact, not individual code output. You'll own technical delivery, coach engineers, remove blockers, and ensure deployments are reliable, scalable, and customer-ready.
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