# Data Platform Engineer at Mercor

- Company: Mercor
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Data
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $160K–500K
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Skills: Engineering
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mercor/415d2ee3-44b9-40e5-ab4b-04340faa3872

## Description

ABOUT MERCOR



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.

 

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.

What This Person Owns

The infrastructure every data-driven team at Mercor runs on: Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, and Hex. You own how data is organized, who can access what, what it costs to run, and how reliably it operates. This is a foundational hire on a new Data Platform team, you'll help set the standards other engineers build against.

What They Do Day-to-Day

- Bring structure and clear ownership to how data is organized in Snowflake across projects and teams

- Design narrow, role-based access controls, and partner with automation so access is granted and revoked as people 

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