AI Native Engineer

Cayuse Holdings; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Cayuse Holdings is seeking an AI Native Engineer for a remote, contract-based role. You will implement features, agents, and MCP integrations using Claude Code within an architecture guided by senior engineers.

The ideal candidate has hands-on AWS delivery experience, strong React/TypeScript/JavaScript and Python skills, and can collaborate across time zones with PST overlap of 5 hours. This 6-8 month engagement offers competitive hourly pay.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineer building features, agents, skills, and MCP integrations with Claude Code.
• Works under senior/principal engineers to define architecture.
• Requires hands-on AWS delivery experience and time overlap with PST.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Claude Code

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

Python

AWS

DynamoDB

S3

Step Functions

Bedrock

Terraform

Playwright

Azure DevOps

Tools

Playwright

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.