Engineering Manager, Fraud & Compliance

The role

You will lead and grow an engineering team responsible for fraud detection, identity verification, and platform integrity. You will define the fraud and compliance engineering roadmap and build AI-powered detection systems.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers
• Define and execute Mercor's fraud and compliance engineering roadmap
• Build systems that generate fraud signals and evaluate risk
• Drive the development of AI-powered detection systems
• Establish evaluation frameworks to measure detection performance
• Recruit exceptional engineers
• Partner with product, operations, and company leadership
• Drive engineering excellence, velocity, and operational rigor

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree such as Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Statistics
• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams
• Experience leading teams through periods of significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change

Nice to have

• 2+ years delivering infrastructure for fraud, trust & safety, risk, identity, payments, abuse prevention, or other adversarial domains
• 2+ years working with machine learning, AI systems, decision engines, or risk-scoring platforms

Benefits

• Generous equity, vested over 4 years
• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of the office)
• $1,500/month meals stipend
• Free Equinox membership
• $200/month laundry reimbursement
• $200/month personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

About the company

Mercor builds infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI on real-world professional work. The company is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation.