Mercor
Hiring · 103 open jobsGeneral information
Mercor is a platform based in San Francisco. It organizes human experts to help train AI systems. The company runs a marketplace that matches experts with AI firms and offers evaluation services. Mercor says it has created 423,000 roles, with more than 30,000 experts across 300+ fields.
Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha started Mercor in San Francisco in 2023. The three were high school friends. Mercor is private, valued at $10 billion in 2025. It began by connecting freelance programmers, then moved to data labeling, then to matching experts with AI firms for model training. It has 300 employees running a network of 30,000 contractors. That matters: a small team manages a very large pool of outside experts.
Currently, there's a total of 92 job openings at Mercor. Over the last 30 days, 34 jobs were added and 22 were removed (job postings usually stay up ~31 days before being removed). Mercor is an H-1B sponsor.1
Hiring activity
New jobs added per week2
View these weekly figures as a table
| Week beginning | New listings |
|---|---|
| July 20, 2026 | 9 |
| July 27, 2026 | 4 |
| August 3, 2026 | 5 |
| August 10, 2026 | 12 |
| August 17, 2026 | 10 |
| August 24, 2026 | 7 |
| August 31, 2026 | 8 |
| September 7, 2026 (in progress) | 7 |
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Does Mercor sponsor visas? Mercor has no H-1B approvals in the USCIS record for 2021 to 2023, but is a likely employer for applicants who require sponsorship. Currently, they have 42 jobs certified for sponsorship in 2026, at a median pay of $155,000.4
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Common questions
Is Mercor hiring now?
Yes. There are 103 open jobs, with 33 added in the last 30 days. They close fast though, often within 31 days, so don't wait.
Does Mercor sponsor H-1B visas?
Yes. Government records show 42 jobs certified for FY2026, at a median pay of $155,000.
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Notes & sources
- 1. Company description. Written by InterviewOS from Mercor's public materials and press coverage; facts are checked against the sources below.
- 2. Weekly counts. A count is the number of listings the pipeline saw for the first time in that week. Weeks begin Monday; the onboarding week is excluded from the scale and every average.
- 3. Live counts. Deduplicated live listings observed daily on Mercor's own hiring system; last check September 12, 2026. Stale and syndicated posts on aggregator sites are not counted.
- 4. Federal visa records. USCIS H1B Employer Data Hub and US Department of Labor LCA disclosure files, matched to this company by name.
Sources
mercor.com, checked daily
USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub
US Department of Labor LCA disclosure files
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