Remote AI Native Engineer — Contract (6–8 Months)

Cayuse Holdings; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Cayuse Holdings is seeking an AI Native Engineer (contractor) to build and maintain harness components, implement features, agents, and MCP integrations using Claude Code. This remote, ASAP-start role is 6–8 months with renewal potential, paying $70–$100 per hour via 1099/C2C.

You will collaborate with senior engineers on architecture and system-level challenges, require hands-on AWS delivery, and operate across frontend Python back-end pipelines. PST overlap is expected.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AI engineering with Claude Code and related agentic tooling.
• Experience delivering AWS-based data and backend solutions.
• Professional English fluency, written and verbal.

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.

Skills

AI engineering

Claude Code experience

English fluency

Tools

Claude Code

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

Python

AWS

Terraform

Playwright

Azure DevOps

Job description

Cayuse Holdings is seeking an AI Native Engineer (contractor) to build and maintain harness components, implement features, agents, and MCP integrations using Claude Code. This remote, ASAP-start role is 6–8 months with renewal potential, paying $70–$100 per hour via 1099/C2C.

You will collaborate with senior engineers on architecture and system-level challenges, require hands-on AWS delivery, and operate across frontend Python back-end pipelines. PST overlap is expected.