DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

$85/hr

153 people hired

RemoteGlobalTechnology3-5 YearsContractPosted Aug 7, 2026

About this role

- Mercor is partnering with a leading AI research lab to support a Frontier Code Agents project. - Contributors help evaluate and improve frontier AI coding models through structured technical assessments. - The work focuses on realistic infrastructure engineering workflows and model evaluation. - Spots are limited and filling quickly on a first come, first serve basis.

Responsibilities

Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, observability, and infrastructure automation.
Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes.
Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

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 such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.
Experience supporting production-scale systems is preferred.
We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.