Enterprise Applied AI Leader
Mercor
San FranciscoOn-siteFullTime
About this role
About Mercor 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. About the Role Within Mercor, our Enterprise AI organization builds the infrastructure enterprises need to deploy continuously improving production AI systems. Rather than relying on hand-written prompts and manual workflows, we help organizations translate how their best people work into agent behavior, evaluate outputs against measurable quality standards, and create feedback loops that make agents smarter over time. Our platform combines organizational context, evaluation systems, and quality guardrails into a stack that powers accelerated AI deployment in weeks instead of months. Proven at scale with the world’s leading frontier AI labs, our technology now powers AI deployments across Fortune 500 organizations. This full-time leadership role sits within Applied AI (the Forward Deployed Engineering team of our Enterprise AI organization) and operates separately from Mercor's expert network. We're hiring Applied AI Leads to build and scale the technical delivery team responsible fo