Database Systems Evaluation Expert – Remote

Job overview

The Database Systems Evaluation Expert role is remote and is described as contract work. Compensation is $2,200 per task. Mercor connects creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The expert designs and evaluates challenging database-engineering tasks and creates criteria for assessing technical work. By testing correctness, failure handling, concurrency, performance, and engineering judgment, the role helps technical reviewers validate tasks and supports AI research teams’ evaluation work.

What you'll do

• Design self-contained database-engineering tasks
• build checks for correctness, failure handling, concurrency, retries, and regressions
• evaluate latency, throughput, and memory use
• write grading criteria for engineering judgment
• collaborate with technical reviewers to refine and validate tasks.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

database systems evaluation expert

remote

mercor

database engineering

database internals

storage engines

query execution

transactions

concurrency

performance evaluation

$2,200 per task

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires five or more years of hands-on database-engine internals experience or a database-systems PhD, with deep experience in areas such as storage engines, query execution, transactions, or replication.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.