Member of Technical Staff, Android

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.

As a Member of Technical Staff, Android, you'll lead the development of Mercor's next-generation Android platform for tens of thousands of AI experts around the world.

Our mobile platform is becoming a core part of the expert experience—from discovering projects and completing onboarding to collaborating with AI-powered workflows. You'll partner closely with Product, Design, AI, and Backend Engineering to define the technical direction of Android while delivering intuitive, reliable, and high-performance mobile experiences that directly improve expert engagement, retention, and satisfaction.

You'll join a small, high-ownership engineering team where you'll influence architecture, establish engineering best practices, mentor engineers as the team grows, and shape the long-term mobile strategy for Expert Experience Engineering. This is an opportunity to build the Android platform from the ground up while working directly with engineering and product leadership.

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  Lead the architecture and development of Mercor's native Android application.

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  Design, build, and ship high-quality Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

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  Own major product initiatives end-to-end—from technical strategy and architecture through production launch.

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  Define Android engineering standards, architecture patterns, testing strategy, and release quality.

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  Collaborate closely with Product, Design, AI, Backend, and Infrastructure teams to deliver customer-facing experiences.

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  Leverage modern AI development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) to accelerate engineering while maintaining a high quality bar.

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  Optimize application performance, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability.

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  Mentor engineers and help establish a strong mobile engineering culture.

• 5+ years of professional Android software engineering experience.

• Strong expertise in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

• Experience shipping and maintaining production Android applications through the Google Play Store.

• Strong understanding of modern Android architecture, testing, debugging, and performance optimization.

• Demonstrated experience making architectural decisions and driving technical direction across projects.

• Fluent in using modern AI software development tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) to improve engineering productivity.

• Excellent software engineering fundamentals and product judgment.

• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team.

• High ownership, strong communication skills, and a bias toward shipping.

• Impact: Build products used every day by tens of thousands of AI experts and directly shape the future of the AI workforce.

• Learning: Work alongside world-class engineers, product leaders, and AI researchers building products at the frontier of AI.

• Ownership: Lead the technical direction of Mercor's Android platform with significant autonomy and product influence.

• Growth: Join a rapidly growing engineering organization with exceptional opportunities to expand your technical leadership and organizational impact.