$400 per accepted task
Frontier Code Agents project for an unnamed AI research lab: use AI coding agents to complete and evaluate realistic engineering tasks, review model-generated code for bugs and edge cases (Mercor, Backend Engineer, Coding Agent Experience)
Dated 15 Jun 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: stated
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“$400 per accepted task. ... Typical tasks take approximately 2–3 hours after ramp-up. ... Compensation is tied to accepted work.”
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- $130 per taskSource code, paid to the people who make it, per task
- 25Prices per repository, per reviewed change, per token and per company code base behind every valuation of a codebase
- 36Prices per task behind every valuation of a task set