Remote Contract Network Engineer — AI Evaluation Scenarios Designer

AfterQuery; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

AfterQuery is hiring network engineers as contractors to author and grade the routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios used to test frontier AI models. You will write reference answers with detailed design and troubleshooting reasoning, and you will grade model outputs for protocol accuracy and operational soundness.

The role is remote, fully asynchronous, with a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional network engineering or network administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with routing, switching, and firewalls in production environments.
• Depth in protocols such as BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and VPNs.
• Clear written English for documenting network design and troubleshooting reasoning.
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic network scenarios from design questions through outage troubleshooting.
• Write reference answers with the design and troubleshooting reasoning behind each decision.
• Grade model output for protocol accuracy and operational soundness.
• Flag configurations that read plausible but would break production networks.

Skills

Network engineering

Routing & Switching

Firewall experience

BGP

OSPF

VLANs

VPNs

Clear written English

Tools

Python

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

AfterQuery is hiring network engineers as contractors to author and grade the routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios used to test frontier AI models. You will write reference answers with detailed design and troubleshooting reasoning, and you will grade model outputs for protocol accuracy and operational soundness.

The role is remote, fully asynchronous, with a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week.