Risk Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $80/hr

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: Fraud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities

- Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex fraud and risk engineering tasks.

- Review model-generated implementations involving fraud detection systems, risk scoring models, abuse prevention tooling, and transaction monitoring systems.

- Identify bugs, edge cases, and failure modes to enhance model robustness.

- Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.

- Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic fraud and risk engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

Must-Have

- 2+ years of professional experience in fraud engineering, risk engineering, trust & safety, or related domains.

- Experience building fraud detection systems, risk scoring models, abuse prevention tooling, or transaction monitoring systems.

- Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.

- Ability to evaluate model-generated solutions in fraud, risk, and trust & safety contexts.

Preferred
- Experience in fintech, payments, marketplaces, or large-scale consumer platforms.

Compensation & Legal

- $400 per accepted task

- Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

- Upload resume

- AI interview based on your resume

- Submit form

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