DevOps Engineer - AI Model Evaluator

Mercor
Any Location, IA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. As a DevOps Engineer - AI Model Evaluator, you will use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.

What You Will Do

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.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios and compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess strengths and weaknesses.

Requirements

  • 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

Benefits

  • $400 per accepted task
  • Compensation is tied to accepted work
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