AI Summary
Mercor seeks a Cloud Computing Expert for a remote contract role. Responsibilities include building digital workspaces, designing multi-step tasks for AI agents, and collaborating with experts. Requires 3+ years of hyperscaler or cloud-data platform experience and proficiency in cloud architecture, SRE, or DevOps.
Key Highlights
Build realistic digital workspaces for AI agent testing.
Design and refine multi-step tasks based on real workflows.
Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking.
Key Responsibilities
Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include architecture docs, runbooks, RFCs, incident post-mortems, capacity plans, cost reports, SRE review decks, and email threads.
Represent platforms like HashiCorp Terraform, Datadog/Splunk, GitHub Actions, and Okta.
Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
Collaborate with other cloud-computing experts to design environments, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for cloud-computing agent benchmarks.
Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
$55–$75/hour compensation
Remote work
Nice to Have
AWS Solutions Architect/SysOps/DevOps certifications
Azure Solutions Architect certifications
GCP Professional Cloud Architect certifications
CKA/CKAD certifications
Job Description
About The Job
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: Cloud Computing Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $55–$75/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Include architecture docs, runbooks, RFCs, incident post-mortems, capacity plans, cost reports, SRE review decks, and email threads. Represent platforms like HashiCorp Terraform, Datadog/Splunk, GitHub Actions, and Okta.
- Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows. Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents.
- Collaborate with other cloud-computing experts to design environments, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor.
- Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for cloud-computing agent benchmarks.
- Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.
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Must-Have
- 3+ years of full-time experience at a major hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud), a cloud-data platform (Snowflake, Databricks), or a Fortune 500 platform/infrastructure team.
- Background in cloud architecture, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, or cloud FinOps.
- Day-to-day use of HashiCorp Terraform/Pulumi, Splunk/Datadog, GitHub Actions/CircleCI, and Okta/Microsoft Entra ID.
- Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect/SysOps/DevOps, Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, CKA/CKAD.
- Hourly contractor transitioning to compensation based on throughput of quality work.
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