Remote Network Engineer: Scenario Design & Evaluation

AfterQuery; Wilmington (DE); Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Weekly payments via Stripe

Independent contractor

Job summary

AfterQuery is seeking network engineers to author and grade realistic routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios used to test frontier AI model judgment. This is a remote, independent contractor position with flexible weekly hours.

You will design scenarios from design questions through outage troubleshooting, write reference answers with reasoning, and evaluate model outputs for protocol accuracy and operational soundness. Minimum 2 years experience required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional network engineering or network administration experience.
• Hands-on routing, switching, and firewall experience 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

Routing

Switching

Firewalls

BGP

OSPF

VLANs

VPNs

Job description

AfterQuery is seeking network engineers to author and grade realistic routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios used to test frontier AI model judgment. This is a remote, independent contractor position with flexible weekly hours.

You will design scenarios from design questions through outage troubleshooting, write reference answers with reasoning, and evaluate model outputs for protocol accuracy and operational soundness. Minimum 2 years experience required.