Risk Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $80/hr

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: Fraud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type: Contract Compensation: $80/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex fraud and risk engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations involving fraud detection systems, risk scoring models, abuse prevention tooling, and transaction monitoring systems.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes to enhance model robustness.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic fraud and risk engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional experience in fraud engineering, risk engineering, trust & safety, or related domains.
• Experience building fraud detection systems, risk scoring models, abuse prevention tooling, or transaction monitoring systems.
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated solutions in fraud, risk, and trust & safety contexts.

Preferred

• Experience in fintech, payments, marketplaces, or large-scale consumer platforms.

Compensation & Legal

• $400 per accepted task
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.