Does Mercor ask for AI skills in its job ads?
Live dataFrom its Ashby job board · Last updated 29 October 2026
Below average
23%of Mercor’s 97 open roles ask the candidate to use AI
- Rank
- #426 of 786
- Open roles
- 97
- Ask for AI
- 22
- As a requirement
- 4%
- Tool named most
Cursor
How many Mercor job ads ask for AI
- 23% of Mercor’s 97 open roles ask the candidate to use AI in the work: 22 job ads, 2 points below the 25% across 1,333 software companies.
- Mercor ranks 426 of 786 companies with 10 or more open roles.
- It asks most in engineering ads: 10 of 29.
- The AI tool its ads name most is Cursor.
Which Mercor roles ask for AI skills
Share of Mercor’s open roles in each role that ask for AI. Roles with 3 or more open roles.Source: Lemonsignal
What Mercor’s job ads say about AI
“We use AI coding agents heavily and expect you to as well; the interesting work is deciding what they should do, not typing.”
“You use AI tools every day and have built at least one workflow or automation that saves time, but don’t rely on it for your writing.”
“You use AI tools to speed up your own work and have built workflows beyond chat.”
How we counted AI skills in Mercor’s job ads
From the 97 open roles on Mercor’s public Ashby job board on 29 October 2026. An ad counts when it asks the person to use AI in their own work. The full method. Work at Mercor and see something wrong? Tell us.