Remote Network Engineer for AI Evaluation Scenarios

AfterQuery; Boulder (CO); 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 evaluate frontier AI models. You will write reference answers detailing design and troubleshooting reasoning and assess model outputs for protocol accuracy and operational soundness.

This is a remote, asynchronous contractor role with no fixed hours. Rates range from $80 to $120 per hour, paid weekly via Stripe, with a minimum of 10 hours per week and ongoing

Qualifications

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

Firewalls

BGP

OSPF

VLANs

VPNs

Written English

Time commitment

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 evaluate frontier AI models. You will write reference answers detailing design and troubleshooting reasoning and assess model outputs for protocol accuracy and operational soundness.

This is a remote, asynchronous contractor role with no fixed hours. Rates range from $80 to $120 per hour, paid weekly via Stripe, with a minimum of 10 hours per week and ongoing