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Mercor is hiring experienced frontend engineers to support a variety of high-impact research collaborations with leading AI labs. Freelancers will help improve AI systems through work extending coding benchmarks that reflect real-world development across diverse languages and domains. This is a unique opportunity to apply your engineering expertise toward shaping the next generation of intelligent systems. Key Responsibilities - Develop and validate coding benchmarks in React, TypeScript, or JavaScript by curating issues, solutions, and test suites from real-world repositories - Ensure benchmark tasks include comprehensive unit and integration tests for solution verification - Maintain consistency and scalability of benchmark task distribution - Provide structured feedback on solution quality and clarity - Debug, optimize, and document benchmark code for reliability and reproducibility Ideal Qualifications - 3–10 years of experience as a frontend engineer - Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field - Strong proficiency in React, Typescript or Javascript - Experience with debugging, testing, and validating code - Comfortable with technical writing and attention to detail Project Timeline - Start Date: Immediate - Duration: 1 month - Commitment: Part-time (15–20 hours/week) - Schedule: Fully remote and asynchronous – flexible working hours Compensation & Contract - $90 per hour plus lucrative bonus per approved task (1 task takes approximately 1 hour to complete) - Median average pay inclusive of bonuses is $200/hr - Independent contractor - Daily payment via Stripe Connect Application & Onboarding Process - Upload your resume - AI interview: A short, 15-minute conversational session to understand your background, experience, and interest in the role - Brief assessment testing real-world coding ability, technical depth, and debugging approach - Follow-up communication within a few days with next steps and onboarding details About Mercor Mercor is a San Francisco-based company specializing in connecting elite professionals with cutting-edge AI initiatives. Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. Thousands of professionals across engineering, research, and creative fields have partnered with Mercor on frontier projects shaping the future of AI. Apply today and leverage your software engineering expertise to help build the future of AI-driven systems!

Mercor is hiring experienced Go Engineers to support a variety of high-impact research collaborations with leading AI labs. Freelancers will help improve AI systems through work extending coding benchmarks that reflect real-world development across diverse languages and domains. This is a unique opportunity to apply your engineering expertise toward shaping the next generation of intelligent systems. Key Responsibilities - Develop and validate coding benchmarks in Go by curating issues, solutions, and test suites from real-world repositories - Ensure benchmark tasks include comprehensive unit and integration tests for solution verification - Maintain consistency and scalability of benchmark task distribution - Provide structured feedback on solution quality and clarity - Debug, optimize, and document benchmark code for reliability and reproducibility Ideal Qualifications - 3–10 years of experience as a backend software engineer, ML engineer, or applied data scientist - Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field - Strong proficiency in Go - Experience with debugging, testing, and validating code - Comfortable with technical writing and attention to detail Project Timeline - Start Date: Immediate - Duration: 1 month - Commitment: Part-time (15–20 hours/week) - Schedule: Fully remote and asynchronous – flexible working hours Compensation & Contract - $90 per hour plus lucrative bonus per approved task (1 task takes approximately 1 hour to complete) - Median average pay inclusive of bonuses is $200/hr - Independent contractor - Daily payment via Stripe Connect Application & Onboarding Process - Upload your resume - AI interview: A short, 15-minute conversational session to understand your background, experience, and interest in the role - Brief assessment testing real-world coding ability, technical depth, and debugging approach - Follow-up communication within a few days with next steps and onboarding details About Mercor Mercor is a San Francisco-based company specializing in connecting elite professionals with cutting-edge AI initiatives. Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. Thousands of professionals across engineering, research, and creative fields have partnered with Mercor on frontier projects shaping the future of AI. Apply today and leverage your software engineering expertise to help build the future of AI-driven systems!

Mercor is hiring experienced Python Engineers to support a variety of high-impact research collaborations with leading AI labs. Freelancers will help improve AI systems through work extending coding benchmarks that reflect real-world development across diverse languages and domains. This is a unique opportunity to apply your engineering expertise toward shaping the next generation of intelligent systems. Key Responsibilities - Develop and validate coding benchmarks in Python by curating issues, solutions, and test suites from real-world repositories - Ensure benchmark tasks include comprehensive unit and integration tests for solution verification - Maintain consistency and scalability of benchmark task distribution - Provide structured feedback on solution quality and clarity - Debug, optimize, and document benchmark code for reliability and reproducibility Ideal Qualifications - 3–10 years of experience as a backend software engineer, ML engineer, or applied data scientist - Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field - Strong proficiency in Python - Experience with debugging, testing, and validating code - Comfortable with technical writing and attention to detail Project Timeline - Start Date: Immediate - Duration: 1 month - Commitment: Part-time (15–20 hours/week) - Schedule: Fully remote and asynchronous – flexible working hours Compensation & Contract - $80 per hour plus lucrative bonus per approved task (1 task takes approximately 1 hour to complete) - Median average pay inclusive of bonuses is $200/hr - Independent contractor - Daily payment via Stripe Connect Application & Onboarding Process - Upload your resume - AI interview: A short, 15-minute conversational session to understand your background, experience, and interest in the role - Brief assessment testing real-world coding ability, technical depth, and debugging approach - Follow-up communication within a few days with next steps and onboarding details About Mercor Mercor is a San Francisco-based company specializing in connecting elite professionals with cutting-edge AI initiatives. Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. Thousands of professionals across engineering, research, and creative fields have partnered with Mercor on frontier projects shaping the future of AI. Apply today and leverage your software engineering expertise to help build the future of AI-driven systems!

Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team.

Job Description The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies. Overview The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. What You'll Do • Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements, • Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability, • Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients, • Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required), • Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers, • Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact, • Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments, • A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products, • A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive, • Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity, • The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry, • Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture, • The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more Think you're a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them! Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job DescriptionMission The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies What You'll Do • Lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or related UI frameworks), C#, XAML, and — when needed — C++., • Define and enforce best-practices for Windows desktop development across the codebase: code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsive UI, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability., • Drive accessibility efforts: integrate and validate support for accessibility APIs (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or other relevant Windows accessibility frameworks), ensure UI controls, focus management, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, and usability for users with disabilities., • Collaborate closely with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to shape feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and long-term roadmap for the Windows platform., • Take ownership of full lifecycle of features: conception → design → implementation → testing → release → maintenance. Ensure quality, reliability, and consistency across releases., • 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM)., • Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code., • Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability., • Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software., • Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant)., • Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions., • Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus., • Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks., • Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load)., • Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions., • Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications., • Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications., • A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience., • A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker., • Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect)., • Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision. Think you're a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them! Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job Description The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies. Overview With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. What You'll Do • Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features, • Shape the future of our Android team, • Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features, • Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering, • Review pull requests, and support other teammates, • Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges, • 5+ years of software engineering experience, • Familiarity with Android components, • Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app, • Product design intuition and user empathy, • Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX, • Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests, • Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec, • Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests, • Excellent communication skills, • User oriented problem solving approach, • Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android, • Kotlin, • Kotlin Coroutines, • Kotlin Flow, • Jetpack Navigation, • Dagger 2, • Room, • Custom Views, Canvas & Paint, • Jetpack Compose, • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product., • An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle., • A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work., • An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry., • Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture., • Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use., • Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more. Think you're a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them! Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job DescriptionLocation: City of Salinas Wallace Group is looking for an individual with a collaborative and leadership mindset with strong technical engineering skills to join our team in our office in the City of Salinas to assist in serving our public agency and private clients throughout the Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito tri-county area. Our culture is built on teamwork with integrity, purpose, quality, and mutual respect as our Core Values summary. Our Vision is to work passionately in a results-driven, rewarding, and supportive growth environment to enhance the lives of those we serve. Duties: Our ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial mindset with strong business development and technical skills to lead and grow our Salinas office. We’re looking for a candidate who is both comfortable working independently and capable of supervising and mentoring mid-to-entry level staff. Administrative support including but not limited to Accounting, Business Development & Marketing, Human Resources, and IT will be provided by staff in San Luis Obispo. Travel, on a monthly or bi-monthly basis, to San Luis Obispo to coordinate on a variety of team activities is anticipated. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the preparation of materials such as design concepts, reports, and construction plans, specifications, & estimate documents with a focus on managing contracts and budgets; while supervising and training design staff. The position includes various interactive roles coordinating with team members, clients, agency staff, and others in the production and delivery of our professional services. Key Expectations: The Wallace Group team enjoys working together and collaborating on creative solutions to produce a quality product for our varied portfolio of long-standing Clients. We are looking for someone with a professional demeanor and responsible work ethic, with clear communication skills (written and verbal) as well as a creative and collaborative nature who will embrace Wallace Group’s commitment to quality control. The candidate should demonstrate strong project management skills including scope, budget and scheduling control, proven project delivery experience including managing teams and consultants, meeting quality deliverable expectations, and experience with preparation of proposals in response to RFP’s & SOQ’s including scope and budget, exhibits for and participation in interviews, and meeting with current and potential clients. Specific Experience: Candidate must show a history of successfully undertaking greater responsibilities during their career. The details of that experience may vary dependent on the area of expertise as Wallace Group has various disciplines in Civil & Transportation Engineering, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Public Works Administration and Permitting, Surveying & GIS, and Water Resources. A focus on public agency work from planning through construction is preferred, along with experience in managing clients and staff. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related field, California Professional Engineer registration, minimum of twelve years of qualifying design and project management experience. Knowledge of various computer programs such as MS Office, CAD, and discipline specific software. Physical Requirements: Ability to sit at a desk and use a computer with related tools for an average 8-hour work shift. Vision to independently view computer screen or printed materials and graphics. Possess mobility to stand or walk on job site as required. Ability to operate motor vehicle. Hearing and speech skills to effectively communicate in English in person and over the telephone. EOE Powered by JazzHR aigizfvmp5

Job Description The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies. Overview With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward. This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users. We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. What You'll Do • Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions, • Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app, • Work within a dedicated product team, • Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap, • Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base, • Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product, • Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience, • Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction, • Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time, • Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down, • Swift Programming Language, • SwiftUI experience, • Experience in Multithreading Programming, • Working with CI/CD infrastructure, • Experience with Fastlane, • SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID, • A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product, • An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle, • The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry, • A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture, • Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives, • Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world Think you're a good fit for this job? Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply. And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn. Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? Refer them! Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job DescriptionAI Coder Our client is a leading force in advancing safer, smarter AI technology. Their work has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and other major outlets for pioneering high-quality, human-verified data that powers today's top AI systems. They've built a global community of expert contributors and have already paid out more than $500 million to professionals worldwide who help train, test, and improve next-generation AI models. Why Join This Team? • Earn up to $32/hr, paid weekly., • Payments via PayPal or AirTM., • No contracts, no 9-to-5. You control your schedule., • Most experts work 5–10 hours/week, with the option to work up to 40 hours from home., • Join a global community of experts contributing to advanced AI tools., • Free access to the Model Playground to interact with leading LLMs.Requirements, • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science from a selective institution., • Proficiency in Python, Java, JavaScript, or C++., • Ability to explain complex programming concepts fluently in Spanish and English., • Strong Spanish and English grammar, punctuation, and technical writing skills., • Preferred: 1+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Back End Developer, or Full Stack Developer.What You'll Do, • Teach AI to interpret and solve complex programming problems., • Create and answer computer-science questions to train AI models., • Review, analyze, and rank AI-generated code for accuracy and efficiency.