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
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Skills
artificial-intelligenceokta
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