Cloud Architect
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location_onFirst Drive West, San Francisco, California, 94129, United States
About the Team
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.
About the Role
As a Cloud Computing Expert, you will build realistic digital workspaces centered on the Drive folders you use daily. Your environment will include architecture docs, runbooks, RFCs, incident post-mortems, capacity plans, cost reports, SRE review decks, and email threads, representing platforms like HashiCorp Terraform, Datadog/Splunk, GitHub Actions, and Okta.
You will design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows, requiring navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents. This role involves collaborating with other cloud-computing experts to design environments, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor. You will work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for cloud-computing agent benchmarks, directly contributing to frontier AI research and informing how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems.
Hiring Process
The application process takes approximately 20–30 minutes to complete and consists of the following steps:
- Upload your resume.
- Complete an AI interview based on your resume.
- Submit the final application form.
Our team reviews applications daily. Please ensure you complete all AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
Resources & Support
For details about the interview process and platform information, please visit: talent.docs.mercor.com For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
Work location
Work model: Remote
First Drive West, San Francisco, California, 94129, United States
San Francisco, California
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What does a Cloud Architect at Mercor do?expand_more
In this Cloud Architect at Mercor role, you will design multi-step tasks grounded in real workflows to challenge frontier ai agents; collaborate with cloud experts to design environments and review scenarios for realism; work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria; and contribute to frontier ai research and benchmarking to inform ai system training.
What are the requirements for this Cloud Architect role?expand_more
Mercor is looking for candidates who meet the following requirements: 3+ years experience at major hyperscaler, cloud-data platform, or Fortune 500 platform/infrastructure team; Background in cloud architecture, SRE, 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; and AWS Solutions Architect/SysOps/DevOps, Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, or CKA/CKAD certifications preferred.
Where is the Cloud Architect role at Mercor located?expand_more
Cloud Architect at Mercor is based in First Drive West, San Francisco, California, 94129, United States. This is a remote role.
Is this Cloud Architect job remote, hybrid, or on-site?expand_more
Mercor has listed this Cloud Architect role as remote.