Mobile Engineer iOS - mercor

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: iOS Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type: Contract Compensation: $85/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated mobile application code for correctness, quality, maintainability, and performance.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic mobile engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional iOS engineering experience.
• Experience building and maintaining production iOS applications using Swift and modern iOS frameworks .
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor , Claude Code , Codex , Windsurf , Gemini CLI , or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated mobile implementations and architectural decisions.

Preferred

• Experience shipping production mobile applications.

Compensation & Legal

• $400 per accepted task
• Typical tasks take approximately 2–3 hours after ramp-up.
• Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs. mercor .com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@ mercor .com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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