Agent Engineer
Mercor
$100 – $500 · as listed
As an Agent Engineer at Mercor, you'll build and operate LLM agents designed for real-world production use. This remote gig involves developing automation solutions that handle complex workflows, monitoring agent performance across deployments, and troubleshooting issues when they arise. You'll work directly with systems where your code impacts actual users, giving you hands-on experience with how AI agents perform in live environments.
This role suits advanced developers with proven experience shipping production agents. You should be comfortable measuring agent effectiveness, iterating based on performance data, and managing systems that run beyond single interactions. Strong coding skills and familiarity with automation frameworks are essential.
Mercor offers this on a flexible, task-based arrangement with compensation ranging from $100–$500 per engagement, depending on project scope and complexity.
From the listing: Mercor marketplace · task-based. We are looking for engineers who build and operate LLM agents in production, and who have real visibility into how agents are actually used inside a company. You have probably: - Shipped an agent that real users depended on, and been on the hook when it broke. - Figured out how to tell whether an agent got better or worse after a change. - Run agents that outlive a single request: sche
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