Agentic Finance Engineer

This is a rare, foundational hire: Mercor's first Agentic Finance Engineer. You'll sit at the intersection of finance, data engineering, and applied AI — building the systems and infrastructure that power how our finance and corporate operations team runs. You will design and deploy the modern data and automation stack from the ground up: architecting scalable financial data models, integrating AI agents into real workflows, and turning manual, spreadsheet-driven processes into reliable, production-grade systems. The ideal candidate has deep finance domain knowledge — you understand how the books actually close, how procurement flows, how revenue is recognized — and the technical fluency to translate that understanding into durable, automated systems. You're equally comfortable in a SQL editor and in a conversation with the CFO, and you're energized by building in a zero-to-one environment.

Responsibilities

Facilitate the design, build, and maintenance of a reliable financial data foundation using modern tools (e.g., dbt, FiveTran, Snowflake/BigQuery, Airflow), covering revenue, AP/AR, procurement, close, strategic finance and FP&A; Partner closely with data infrastructure team to build Mercor's financial data model: define canonical datasets, dimensional schemas, and the transformation logic that serves Finance stakeholders; Partner with Finance leads across accounting, strategic finance, and operations to translate business requirements into technical architecture; Build and maintain dashboards and self-serve reporting tools that give finance leaders real-time visibility into key metrics; Own the Agentic Finance roadmap – prioritizing use cases and driving features from ideation to deployment; Identify high-value automation opportunities across Finance and corporate operations — month-end close tasks, reconciliations, procurement workflows, variance analysis — and ship solutions that eliminate manual work; Build intelligent, reliable automation via agents (in partnership with engineering teams), AI-powered tools, and multi-step ETL jobs into live finance workflows, using APIs (including frontier models); Build internal tooling that Finance teams actually use: lightweight apps, workflow automations, and AI-assisted processes that save meaningful time at scale; Stay at the frontier of what's possible with AI in Finance (meeting other finance teams, reading research, etc.), and proactively bring new capabilities to bear on Mercor's highest-leverage operational problems; Enforce data integrity standards and testing practices across all financial data products — ensuring auditability and reliability for a maturing Finance function; Ensure AI-assisted processes meet appropriate governance and controls standards, with clear auditability of model outputs used in financial workflows; Champion a culture of data quality and documentation so that Finance teams trust and rely on the systems you build

Requirements

3+ years of experience spanning finance operations, data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, or a combination — with a track record of shipping reliable systems in high-growth environments; Understand the data needs of finance and corporate operations, including accounting, finance operations, FP&A, strategic finance, and procurement; You should be very proficient in SQL and Python. While you can learn data & workflow orchestration tools on-the-job, we expect you to have a very strong computer science fundamentals; A builder's instinct: you take ownership of problems, move fast, and know when to do things properly versus pragmatically; Excellent communication skills — you can explain a data model to a CFO and a pipeline architecture to an engineer; Experience navigating ambiguity in early-stage or rapidly scaling environments

Nice to have

Hands-on experience deploying AI agents or LLM-powered tools; Experience with financial data governance and audit readiness; Background in strategic finance, accounting, FP&A, or finance transformation — or time spent in a high-growth tech company's finance function

Benefits

Generous equity grant vested over 4 years; Up to $15k Relocation bonus; $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office); $1.5K monthly stipend for meals; Free Equinox membership; $200 monthly laundry reimbursement; $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement; Health, Dental, Vision insurance; 401(k) with company match