<div class="show-more-less-html__markup show-more-less-html__markup--clamp-after-5 relative overflow-hidden"> <strong>About The Job<br/><br/></strong><strong>Mercor</strong> connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include <strong>Benchmark</strong>, <strong>General Catalyst</strong>, <strong>Peter Thiel</strong>, <strong>Adam D'Angelo</strong>, <strong>Larry Summers</strong>, and <strong>Jack Dorsey</strong>.<br/><br/><strong>Position:</strong> Data Engineering Expert<br/><br/><strong>Type:</strong> <strong>Contract<br/><br/></strong><strong>Compensation:</strong> <strong>$90–$125/hour<br/><br/></strong><strong>Location:</strong> <strong>Remote<br/><br/></strong><strong>Role Responsibilities<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Build long-horizon pipeline tasks with deterministic rubrics to grade agent performance against verifiable ground truth.</li><li>Develop ETL/ELT pipelines and dbt models to produce specified output tables with incremental logic and defined watermark behavior.</li><li>Create Airflow/Dagster DAGs that pass test suites and data quality tests with known pass/fail cases.</li><li>Design warehouse schemas matching defined contracts and performance targets tied to measured query-time budgets.</li><li>Work independently in long focus sessions to create challenging scenarios for agent evaluation.</li><li>Ensure tasks have checkable answers without open-ended essays or subjective judgment calls.<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>Qualifications<br/><br/></strong><strong>Must-Have<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>BS or MS in CS or related field.</li><li>3+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering.</li><li>Expertise in dbt model development, pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect), warehouse design (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks), and data quality and testing.</li><li>Comfortable with data engineering artifacts: dbt models, DAGs, schema docs, data contracts, and test suites.</li><li>Clear written communication skills to articulate reasoning and encode it into deterministic rubrics.<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>Compensation &amp; Legal<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Hourly contractor</li><li>Strong contributors are promoted based on task quality and throughput.<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>Upload resume</li><li>AI interview based on your resume</li><li>Submit form<br/><br/></li></ul><strong>Resources &amp; Support<br/><br/></strong><ul><li>For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome</li><li>For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com<br/><br/></li></ul><em>PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.<br/><br/></em>,<br/><br/> </div>