DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

Engineering & Software • Independent Contractor • Remote • Weekly Payouts

About the 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.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Time Commitment

• Sprint based project that runs in 12-24 hour stretches based on client requirement.

Compensation

• $400 per accepted task.

• Typical tasks take approximately 2, 3 hours after ramp-up.

• Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Who Should Apply

• 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.

Details

• Pay: $85 per hour (hourly)
• Commitment: 40 hours per week • remote
• Eligible locations: Canada, United States, Mexico, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, and more
• Platform: Mercor (weekly payouts via Stripe or Wise)

Submit your application via the link below. Qualified candidates move through Mercor's short AI interview and selection process. Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.