Network Engineer Expert

Pay: $100/hour

Network engineers to build the routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment.

AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring network engineers as contractors to author and grade the routing, switching, and troubleshooting scenarios those evaluations run on.

What you'll actually do

• 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

Who this is for

• Engineers with at least 2 years of network engineering or administration experience
• Practitioners with hands on routing, switching, and firewall experience in production
• Engineers with depth in protocols such as BGP, OSPF, VLANs, and VPNs
• Clear writers who can document the reasoning behind a design or troubleshooting decision

Contract and pay

• $80 to $120/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
• Remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
• Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
• No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
• Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.