Fraud Engineer - AI Specialist

Mercor
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. As a Fraud Engineer, you will use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex fraud and risk engineering tasks.

What You Will Do

Review model-generated implementations, identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes, and compare outputs from multiple frontier models.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will apply professional engineering judgment to realistic fraud and risk engineering scenarios and have the opportunity to work with leading AI research labs.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of professional experience in fraud engineering, risk engineering, trust & safety, or related domains
  • Experience building fraud detection systems, risk scoring models, abuse prevention tooling, or transaction monitoring systems
  • Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools
  • Ability to evaluate model-generated solutions in fraud, risk, and trust & safety contexts

Benefits

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