Software Engineer Intern

San Francisco💼 Internship💰 $18,000–$18,000🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building modern backend systems and next-generation tools for AI companies, including talent platform automation and applied AI/human data pipelines.

Role type

Software Engineer Intern (Backend)

Builds

Production-grade backend systems, recruiting automation tools, and datasets for foundational AI models.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Software Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, Go, JavaScript, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, cloud platforms

Responsibilities

Designing and shipping production systems, writing production-grade code, collaborating with product and design teams, working on talent platform or applied AI projects.

Seniority

Intern

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About Mercor

Series C500 Employees

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.