Remote Network Scenario Engineer (Contractor)

AfterQuery; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 11,000 - 16,000; Full time

Job summary

AfterQuery seeks network engineers to author and grade realistic routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios for frontier AI model evaluations. Contractors write reference answers explaining design decisions and assess model outputs for protocol accuracy and operational soundness.

Ideal candidates: 2+ years in network engineering, hands-on routing/switching/firewalls, BGP/OSPF/VLANs/VPNs, and strong written English.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional network engineering or admin experience.
• Hands-on routing, switching and firewalls in production.
• Expertise in BGP, OSPF, VLANs and VPNs.
• Clear written English for documenting decisions.
• 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

Firewalls

BGP/OSPF/VLANs/VPNs

English writing

10+ hours per week

Tools

Python

Ansible

Cloud networking (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

AfterQuery seeks network engineers to author and grade realistic routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios for frontier AI model evaluations. Contractors write reference answers explaining design decisions and assess model outputs for protocol accuracy and operational soundness.

Ideal candidates: 2+ years in network engineering, hands-on routing/switching/firewalls, BGP/OSPF/VLANs/VPNs, and strong written English.