Database Systems Expert - PhD

Mercor
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The Database Systems Evaluation Expert will design challenging database engineering tasks, build checks for correctness, and evaluate performance measures.

What You Will Do

Design database engineering tasks, build checks for correctness, evaluate performance measures, write grading criteria, and collaborate with technical reviewers.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on database-engine internals experience or a database-systems PhD, deep experience with storage engines, and strong implementation skills.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on database-engine internals experience or a database-systems PhD
  • Deep experience with storage engines, query execution, optimization, transactions, replication, or related low-latency systems
  • Strong implementation skills and clear explanations of correctness and performance tradeoffs
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