Contractor Competitive Programming Specialist
Mercor is hiring a remote Contractor Competitive Programming Specialist. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting India based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Mercor
Job Title
Competitive Programming Specialist
Posted
Career Level
Contractor
Career Level
Experienced
Locations Accepted
India
Salary
HOUR $10 - $10
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Job Details
This role involves creating terminal bench–style problems and tasks involving agents within a competitive programming environment.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Responsibilities:
- Develop interactive, terminal-based challenges that test the problem-solving capabilities of autonomous agents in real-time coding scenarios.
- Design and implement terminal-based coding challenges for agents to solve autonomously
- Build a sandboxed, judge-like environment that runs test cases, checks correctness, and monitors time/memory usage
- Simulate real-world competitive conditions: limited time, incremental hints, multiple submissions, etc.
- Collaborate with AI engineers to define reward functions, failure conditions, and difficulty tiers
Requirements:
- Track record of success in competitive programming contests (e.g., ICPC, Codeforces, LeetCode, AtCoder, HackerRank)
- Strong skills in algorithms, data structures, and systems-level thinking
- Proficient in Python, C++, or Go
- Ability to design programming problems that test time complexity, memory constraints, logic correctness, and multi-step reasoning
FAQs
What is the last date for applying to the job?
The deadline to apply for Contractor Competitive Programming Specialist at Mercor is
30th of October 2025
. We consider jobs older than one month to have expired.
Which countries are accepted for this remote job?
This job accepts [
India
] applicants. .
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