Senior Software Engineer – AI Enablement
Mercury
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $166,600 - $218,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Join a team building Mercury's internal AI platform and enablement layer.
- Extend, harden, and scale existing technologies.
- Partner with teams to adopt the platform effectively.
- Build and evolve MCP servers connecting internal systems.
- Expand and operate LLM gateway infrastructure.
- Shape and maintain structured context artifacts for LLM reasoning.
- Improve internal knowledge discoverability for humans and agents.
- Build refined sandbox environments for engineers to experiment safely.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience in complex, production systems.
- Fluent across programming languages.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems—RAG pipelines, agents, eval frameworks.
- Understands real tradeoffs in AI deployments: cost modeling, observability, latency, and safety.
- High-agency and self-directed.
- Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Our total rewards package includes base salary, equity, and benefits.
- Highly competitive salary and equity ranges updated regularly using reliable compensation survey data.
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend developmentprogramming languagesLLM-powered systemsRAG pipelinesagentseval frameworkscost modelingobservabilitylatencysafety
Soft Skills
high-agencyself-directedclear communication