Software Engineer — Agentic Search Systems | $80-$150 One-Time Remote
Listing checked August 29, 2026 · pay as published by Mercor
Overview
We're looking for engineers with hands-on experience shipping production search systems — especially agentic ones in the age of LLMs and AI agents. This isn't a typical coding screen: it's a 25-minute conversational interview focused on how you think about search quality, evaluation, and real-world tradeoffs. Standout chats lead to a paid 30-minute follow-up conversation with our team.
What You'll Do4
- 1Own relevance or retrieval for a production system that real users depend on.
- 2Define how to measure impact and improvements for search quality.
- 3Build and iterate on agentic search pipelines and components.
- 4Scale data infrastructure to support modern search and retrieval workloads.
Requirements4
- 1Proven experience shipping production search systems with a focus on relevance and retrieval.
- 2Strong grasp of evaluation methodology — how to quantify search quality and compare improvements.
- 3Hands-on experience building or optimizing agentic search flows that leverage LLMs.
- 4Comfort scaling data pipelines and infrastructure that power search at real user scale.
Who Should Apply
You're the kind of engineer who has messy war stories about search systems — the ranking bug that slipped through, the evaluation set that misled you, the agentic loop that spiraled. You think in tradeoffs and can articulate exactly why you made the choices you did. You don't need to write code in this interview, but you should be ready to go deep on the systems you've built.
Salary Insight
Listing indicates a one-time remote task paying $80–$150, with a paid 30-minute follow-up conversation at $200 upon completion. Additional compensation isn't specified.
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Come prepared with one specific, messy production story — a relevance failure, a retrieval bottleneck, or an agentic search issue you debugged. Walk through the tradeoffs you made and how you measured the outcome; concrete details beat polished answers here.
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