Engineering

Builders & Developers: Share Your AI Coding Sessions

Mercor

Verified listing

Contract

RemotePosted 3d ago$500 per task

Overview

Mercor is partnering with an AI research organization to understand how people build with AI coding assistants. Participants record their normal work sessions using OpenCode, a terminal-based coding assistant, with open-weight and Gemini models available to choose from.

What You’ll Do

Build or improve your own real project using provided open-weight and Gemini models
Choose which model to use for each task and switch as needed
Use one chat per task
Record coding sessions while doing normal work

Requirements

Actively building a real project (side project, startup, app, or LLM-powered feature)
Experience using AI tools to build (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Cline, Replit, or Lovable)
Comfortable following terminal setup steps on Mac or Linux
Professional coding experience welcome but not required

Who Should Apply

This suits builders with real projects already underway who are comfortable working in unfamiliar tooling and having their sessions studied. It works well for side-project developers, AI-first engineers, and even non-traditional coders already using AI assistants—especially those who enjoy contributing to research. It will frustrate anyone who needs predictable income, prefers privacy, or works primarily on Windows/closed environments.

Salary Insight

$500 per session for roughly 50 turns of work (2–3 hours active), equating to approximately $167–250 per hour. This is task-based compensation, so earnings depend on session acceptance and completion rate. Mercor likely screens sessions for data quality, so not all attempts may be paid.

About Mercor

A marketplace placing specialists into paid remote contract work with AI companies. One profile and one AI interview, reused across every role you apply to.

Remote policy: Fully remote, worldwide, on hourly contractor agreements rather than employment. But payment eligibility is the thing to check before you invest any time, because it is decided by country and there is no way around it. Mercor pays through Stripe Connect in…

How hiring works at Mercor →

Required Skills

AI coding assistantsTerminal-based toolsGemini modelsOpen-weight models

Compensation

$500 per task

Location: Remote
Engagement: Contract
Posted: 3d ago

Opens Mercor’s listing on MyRemoteJobs — we don’t collect applications ourselves.

About Mercor

A marketplace placing specialists into paid remote contract work with AI companies. One profile and one AI interview, reused across every role you apply to.

How hiring works at Mercor →

Will your CV get past the filter?

Most applications are rejected by software before a person ever reads them. Scan your CV using our ATS Checker tool, see exactly what's blocking it, then fix it in the CV Builder and apply knowing it'll get through.

Scan my CV

Get roles like this by email

Tell us what you do and we'll email you when a similar remote job is posted. No account needed.

See our jobs more often in your search

Add MyRemoteJobs as a Preferred Source on Google. Free, takes seconds, and you stay on this page.

Application Tip

Emphasize the specificity and maturity of your current project—link to a GitHub repo, deployed app, or clear description of what you're actively building. Mercor is funding research, not hiring; they need signal that you'll do genuine work, not toy code. Mention which AI tools you already use daily and any non-standard setup (M1 Mac, WSL, etc.) to show you can handle terminal environments. A one-line summary of your project is worth more than a list of languages.

Sourced from MyRemoteJobs · verified against the original posting