Search Optimization Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $150/task Task based

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: Software Engineer — Agentic Search Systems
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80–$150/hour
Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize agentic search systems for production environments.
• Own relevance and retrieval processes to ensure systems meet user needs.
• Quantify the impact and improvements of search systems effectively.
• Build and scale data infrastructure to support modern search capabilities.
• Work independently and asynchronously to enhance search quality and evaluation.

Qualifications

• Experience with production search systems and agentic search.
• Proven ability to own relevance or retrieval on user-dependent systems.
• Strong skills in quantifying system impact and improvements.

Interview Process

• 25 mins conversational interview. No coding or take-home tasks.
• Follow‑up 30 mins paid live conversation with the team for standout interviews.

Compensation & Legal

Paid on completion of the follow‑up call.