AI Native Engineer

Cayuse Holdings; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Cayuse Holdings is seeking an AI Native Engineer to build and extend harness components using Claude Code, collaborating with senior engineers on an architecture defined by leadership.

The contractor role involves hands-on full-stack work across frontend and backend, delivering features, system retrieval, tool invocation, evaluation, and observability within the harness, with guidance from senior staff.

Qualifications

• English fluency, both written and spoken.
• Hands-on with Claude Code or comparable agentic tooling.
• Experience delivering AWS-based engineering solutions.
• Timezone overlap with PST working hours (at least 5 hours).

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Claude Code

English fluency

PST overlap

AWS delivery

Tools

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

Python

AWS

Terraform

Playwright

Azure DevOps

Job description

Overview

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.

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

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.

Location

US-

ID

2026-4161

Category

Information Technology

Position Type

Independent Contractor

Remote

Yes

Clearance Required

None