Mercator is hiring a Founding AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build core pipelines that transform messy, unstructured inputs into clean, structured, reliable data
• Own end-to-end ingestion and reasoning: extracting data from varied sources, interpreting and mapping it into structured schemas, reconciling inconsistencies, validating correctness, and indexing it for retrieval and grounding
• Design LLM-driven reasoning workflows
• Build RAG pipelines
• Architect the gold-standard data store that becomes the trusted source for everything downstream
• Partner closely with product and application engineers to define data contracts, build APIs, and ensure simulation and customer-facing features are backed by consistent, explainable, and production-grade data
• Prototype quickly, iterate with real customer inputs, debug ambiguous failures, and harden systems to scale with product complexity

Requirements

• Experience building data systems that transform unstructured inputs into structured, reliable data
• Ability to design and implement LLM-driven reasoning workflows and RAG pipelines
• Strong systems design skills to architect scalable, production-grade data stores
• Experience working with messy, real-world data sources and reconciling inconsistencies
• Ability to define data contracts and build APIs in collaboration with product and application engineers
• Experience debugging ambiguous system failures and hardening systems for scale

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Company workation: work from a fun destination (e.g., skiing, surfing) two weeks a year

Additional Information

• Applicants must have valid U.S. work authorization
• H-1B transfers supported
• No new visa sponsorships initiated at this time