• Own strategy, delivery, and operations for a large, multi-tenant platform composed of many services and product teams. • Lead a multi-year AI transformation, embedding AI into products and engineering practices with clear success metrics (e.g., feature velocity, quality, cost, and customer impact). • Manage and develop a ~300-person, geo-distributed engineering organization, including major hubs in India and other regions. • Build trust with existing teams and leaders while making and executing difficult architectural, organizational, and investment decisions. • Partner closely with Product, Architecture, SRE/Operations, Security, and GTM to align priorities and tradeoffs across a broad product portfolio. • Communicate strategy, progress, and risk to the executive team and Board in a concise, business-focused way.

Role Description - Author and manage Pull Requests (PRs) to integrate new code into large, complex open-source codebases. - Evaluate and enhance AI model training through active contributions to open-source repositories. - Collaborate with AI research teams to improve training data quality and model outputs. - Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and deliver impactful code. - Shape the future of open-source projects by providing structured feedback and innovative solutions. Qualifications - Strong ability to author and manage Pull Requests (PRs). - Demonstrated experience with significant GitHub contributions. - Preferred: 3+ years as a Software Engineer. Requirements - Start Date: Immediately Application Process - Upload resume - AI interview based on your resume - Submit form Resources & Support - For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: Interview Process - For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com - Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

Role Description As a Lead Software Engineer in Kainos, you'll be responsible for leading teams and developing high quality solutions which delight our customers and impact the lives of users worldwide. It’s a fast-paced environment so it is important for you to make sound, reasoned decisions. - Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, focusing on employee performance and career development. - Provide direction and leadership for your team while solving challenging problems together. - Interact with customers, share knowledge, and mentor those around you. Qualifications - Expertise in designing, building, testing, and maintaining modern software applications, with strong experience in at least one of Python or C#/.NET. - Technical leadership of teams building and testing modern, scalable, secure, performant applications in line with software development principles, practices, and patterns (e.g., XP, TDD). - Experience building AI or ML-powered products, including model integration, evaluation, prompt engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. - Experience with Microsoft Azure AI services (e.g., Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Foundry, Cognitive Services) or equivalent cloud AI platforms. - Experience of technical ownership for a product or software project, including architecture, estimation, product planning, and user story/requirement creation. - Expertise in software design and development across all layers of an application, including API design, data pipelines, and front-end integration. - Demonstrated ability in managing, coaching, and developing junior members of your team and wider community. - Experience with the latest Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques, including CI/CD for ML/AI workloads (model versioning, experiment tracking, automated evaluation). Requirements - Experience with the Microsoft agent ecosystem (e.g., Microsoft Agent Framework, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, or Semantic Kernel). - Knowledge of responsible AI practices, including content filtering, PII handling, bias testing, and governance of autonomous agent actions. - Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Active participation in knowledge sharing activities, both within the team and at a wider capability level and externally where appropriate. - Experience of multiple programming languages and data storage technologies, including vector databases or search indices. - Knowledge of public cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS, including SaaS and PaaS offerings. Benefits - People-first culture where your ideas are valued and your growth is supported. - Opportunity to be part of a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration.

• Performs activities covering the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering through to support for final deployment of the features they develop, consistent with agile development processes. • Be a member of the development team, taking ownership of work items for development in each Sprint; • Perform development-related activities such as analysis and design, programming, testing, and requirements; • Carry out software development activities in a multidisciplinary way, focusing on product quality and maintainability, including requirements, analysis and design, programming, configuration management, testing and deployment; • Manage own work, promptly notifying the team of any delays or other impediments; • Mentor and support developers on the project development team; • Code and integrate software components according to technical specifications, using the development tools, programming languages and libraries defined for the project; • Identify, build and test developed components to ensure quality; • Perform corrective and evolutionary maintenance of software components; • Prepare technical documentation in accordance with the contract requirements under which they are working; • Integrate components produced with those built by other team members, using the integration tool defined for the project; • Set up and configure a local development environment according to the project’s requirements and needs; • Provide support to the IT team and client users when requested, regarding the characteristics and specifics of the components, modules and software packages developed; • Deliver and execute integration tests in the client environment to ensure full functionality of the software and its components; • Monitor acceptance testing and deployment of the software in the client environments as established in the contract; • Conduct training and knowledge transfer to the client about the developed software to ensure proper system operation; • Understand the operation of information systems based on experimentation/observation, with the ability to refactor legacy web systems.