Remote Network Engineer - AI Scenario Design & Evaluation

AfterQuery; New York (NY); Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Weekly payments via Stripe

Job summary

AfterQuery is hiring network engineers as contractors to author and grade complex routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios used to evaluate frontier AI models. You will write realistic, end-to-end network cases and provide reference answers with detailed reasoning.

The role is remote, fully async, with no fixed hours. You can commit a minimum of 10 hours per week, with pay set hourly from $80 to $120 based on experience, paid weekly via Stripe.

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

Network administration

Firewall experience

Documentation writing

Tools

Python

Ansible

AWS

Job description

AfterQuery is hiring network engineers as contractors to author and grade complex routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios used to evaluate frontier AI models. You will write realistic, end-to-end network cases and provide reference answers with detailed reasoning.

The role is remote, fully async, with no fixed hours. You can commit a minimum of 10 hours per week, with pay set hourly from $80 to $120 based on experience, paid weekly via Stripe.