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# Tech Lead, Systems & Platform Applied AI at Mercor

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$250,000 – $500,000/yr

**Setup**
: On-site

**Location**
: San Francisco, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: lead/mgmt

**Posted**
: Sep 24, 2026

## Description

Mercor is hiring an Applied AI Backend Systems Tech Lead to own the architecture and production reliability of backend services, data models, APIs, orchestration systems, and high-throughput pipelines. The role combines hands-on development, architectural decision-making, design review, mentoring senior engineers, infrastructure-as-code management, on-call incident response, and cross-team alignment. Candidates need at least 8 years of backend engineering experience, strong distributed-systems and database skills, production-service experience, and familiarity with modern AI development tools.

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