Remote Network Engineer - Scenario Design & Troubleshooting

AfterQuery; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Weekly payments via Stripe

Flexible hours

Ongoing contractor projects

Job summary

AfterQuery is seeking network engineers to author and grade routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios used to evaluate frontier AI models. This is a contract, remote, async role with pay weekly via Stripe.

You will craft realistic scenarios, write reference answers with reasoning, and assess model outputs for protocol accuracy and production soundness. Minimum 2 years of network engineering or admin experience required; 10 hours per week minimum.

Qualifications

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

2+ years network engineering

Routing, switching, firewalls

BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VPNs

Clear written English

Commit to 10 hrs/week

Job description

AfterQuery is seeking network engineers to author and grade routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios used to evaluate frontier AI models. This is a contract, remote, async role with pay weekly via Stripe.

You will craft realistic scenarios, write reference answers with reasoning, and assess model outputs for protocol accuracy and production soundness. Minimum 2 years of network engineering or admin experience required; 10 hours per week minimum.