Software Engineer, C – Codebase Q&A

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Choose tasks from a pre-approved selection of C repositories tied to specific git commits.

• Investigate repositories along with pertinent pull-request or issue histories to gain insights into subsystems.

• Reformulate questions to challenge leading coding agents while ensuring they remain clear and answerable.

• Modify rubrics and foils to acknowledge correct reasoning and dismiss plausible yet incorrect answers.

• Execute the complete validation cycle in Mercor Studio: Check, Golden, Run, Analyze.

• Record work in task READMEs and submit them for expert evaluation.

• Respond to reviewer comments on returned tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of professional experience in software engineering.

• Significant experience with production-level C programming.

• Skill in navigating extensive, unfamiliar C codebases and explaining runtime behavior.

• Familiarity with preprocessor-intensive builds, platform conditionals, manual memory management, and autotools/CMake/Meson build systems.

• Relevant experience in databases, cryptography, networking protocols, or systems programming is highly desirable.

• Proficiency in utilizing debuggers, sanitizers, tracing, and profiling tools.

• Excellent written communication skills in English.

• Completion of identity verification, background checks, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, tax form, and passing a brief calibration quiz are necessary before task access.

• Candidates may be required to undertake a technical assessment or provide further information.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Flexible, asynchronous work hours.

• Compensation for each approved task.

• Access to Mercor Studio.

• Support from an expert team lead.

• Reasonable accommodations available upon request.

• Up to $250 referral bonus for each successful referral.