Data Engineer

Employer: Mercor

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Salary: $80.00 hourly

About the job: Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. Position: Data Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type: Contract Compensation: $80/hour Location: Remote Role Responsibilities: Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex data engineering tasks. Review model-generated implementations involving ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, and distributed data systems. Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues, and failure modes in model outputs. Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses. Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios Must-Have: 2+ years of professional data engineering experience. Experience building ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, or distributed data sy