DevOps Engineer - AI Model Evaluator

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 , and infrastructure automation .
• Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess 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 like 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 task .
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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.