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mercor

C Software Developer - Fully Remote | Upto $130/task Task based

mercor
NigeriaPosted 11 days agoDiscoveredMatch locked
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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, C — Codebase Q&A

Role Responsibilities

  • Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of

C repositories

, each with an engineering question and a golden solution.

  • Explore the repository to understand the subsystem, including relevant PR or issue history.
  • Rewrite task questions to challenge frontier coding agents while ensuring clarity and fairness.
  • Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject incorrect answers.
  • Run the full validation loop in

Mercor Studio

and iterate until every stage passes.

  • Document work in the task

README

and address reviewer feedback on returned tasks.

Must-Have

•

3+ years

of professional software engineering experience with substantial production

C .

•

Ability to navigate large, unfamiliar C codebases

and explain runtime behavior. •

Comfort with preprocessor-heavy builds

, platform conditionals, and manual memory management. •

Experience with databases, cryptography, networking protocols, or systems programming.

•

Ability to use debuggers

,

sanitizers

, tracing, and

profilers

. •

Working Details

•

Fully remote

and asynchronous work with team leads across US, India, and Nigeria. •

Work is performed in Mercor Studio

; time tracked with

Insightful

and access provisioned through

Okta

.

  • Onboarding requires identity verification, a background check, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, a tax form, and passing a short calibration quiz.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

•

Submit your resume or relevant technical background to get started.

•

Resources & Support

•

For details about the interview process and platform information, please check

•

For any help or support, reach out to

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity. Originally posted on Himalayas

Not included in the source posting: benefits.

Skills

artificial-intelligenceokta

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