Remote Contractor: Network Engineer for AI Model Evaluation

AfterQuery; Southfield (MI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Weekly pay via Stripe

Ongoing project work

Job summary

AfterQuery seeks network engineers to author and grade evaluation scenarios for frontier AI labs. You will craft design and outage troubleshooting questions, write reference answers with reasoning, and assess model outputs for protocol accuracy and production suitability.

Remote, fully async contractor role with minimum 10 hours per week, ongoing project work, and pay ranges based on experience.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional network engineering or administration experience.
• Hands-on routing, switching, and firewalls in production.
• Depth in 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

Routing

Switching

Firewall

Documentation

Technical writing

Education

CCNA

CCNP

JNCIA

Tools

Python

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

AfterQuery seeks network engineers to author and grade evaluation scenarios for frontier AI labs. You will craft design and outage troubleshooting questions, write reference answers with reasoning, and assess model outputs for protocol accuracy and production suitability.

Remote, fully async contractor role with minimum 10 hours per week, ongoing project work, and pay ranges based on experience.