Engineering Manager, Fraud & Compliance

About the role

We are seeking an exceptional engineering leader to join our team and lead efforts focused on fraud detection and platform integrity. This includes identity verification, abuse prevention, risk scoring, and the AI-powered decision engines and evaluation pipelines that catch fraudulent behavior at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers responsible for fraud detection, identity verification, abuse prevention, and platform integrity
• Define and execute Mercor's fraud and compliance engineering roadmap in partnership with product, operations, and company leadership
• Build systems that generate fraud signals, evaluate risk, make automated decisions, and continuously improve through human review and feedback loops
• Drive the development of AI-powered detection systems, including LLM-based decision engines, scoring models, and review workflows
• Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure detection performance, confidence calibration, false positive/negative tradeoffs, and business impact
• Recruit exceptional engineers and raise the talent bar across the organization
• Partner closely with product, operations, and company leadership
• Drive engineering excellence, velocity, and operational rigor in an adversarial, fast-moving domain

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software engineering teams
• Experience leading teams through periods of significant scale, ambiguity, or rapid change, with clear examples of the impact you've personally driven

Qualifications

• 2+ years delivering infrastructure for fraud, trust & safety, risk, identity, payments, abuse prevention, or other adversarial domains
• 2+ years working with machine learning, AI systems, decision engines, or risk-scoring platforms

Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with fraud detection and risk assessment technologies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Benefits

• Generous equity, vested over 4 years
• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of the office)
• $1,500/month meals stipend
• Free Equinox membership
• $200/month laundry reimbursement
• $200/month personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

Pay

Compensation Range: $250K - $400K

Schedule

Work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.