AI Native Engineer

Cayuse Holdings; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Cayuse Holdings seeks an AI Native Engineer to join as a remote independent contractor. The role centers on hands-on development of features, agents, skills, and MCP integrations using Claude Code within an architecture defined by senior engineers.

You will build and maintain harness components and address architecture- and systems-level challenges under senior review. This position requires strong AWS delivery experience and frontend/backend capabilities.

Qualifications

• Proficient in English, written and spoken.
• Hands-on with Claude Code or similar agentic tooling.
• Timezone overlap of 5 hours with PST (8am–6pm PST).
• Hands-on AWS delivery required.
• Experience with React/TypeScript/JavaScript frontend and Python backend data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains harness components (retrieval, tool invocation, evaluation, observability).
• Works through architecture- and systems-level problems under senior review.

Skills

Claude Code

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

Python

AWS

Bedrock

Terraform

Playwright

Azure DevOps

Tools

Claude Code

S3

DynamoDB

Lambda

API Gateway

Bedrock

Terraform

Playwright

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Title

AI Native Engineer

Location

Remote

Job Type

Independent Contract (Contractor / Non-Employee)

Start Date

ASAP

Pay Rate

$70-100/hr 1099 / C2C

Contract Length

6-8 Months - Renewable

Description

AI Native Engineer (Context Engineer / Harness Engineer) A hands-on builder who implements features, agents, skills, and MCP integrations using Claude Code, working within an architecture defined by senior and principal engineers.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains harness components (retrieval, tool invocation, evaluation, observability) under review, and contributes improvements back to the shared base harness.
• Works through architecture- and systems-level problems under senior review as the path to progression.

Qualifications

• Tech: Claude Code, React / TypeScript / JavaScript / Node.js front end, Python and backend data engineering, AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, API Gateway, Bedrock), Terraform, Playwright, Azure DevOps.
• Professional English fluency, written and verbal.
• AI-enabled and hands-on with Claude Code (or comparable agentic tooling).
• Timezone overlap of at least 5 hours with PST working hours (8am–6pm PST).
• Hands-on AWS delivery is required for the engineering roles

Pay Range

USD $70.00 - USD $100.00 /Hr.