Network Engineer Expert

About the role

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

<p>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.</p>

<p><strong>What you'll actually do</strong></p>

<ul><li>Author realistic network scenarios, from design questions through outage troubleshooting</li><li>Write reference answers with the design and troubleshooting reasoning behind each decision</li><li>Grade model output for protocol accuracy and operational soundness</li><li>Flag configurations that read plausible but would break production networks</li></ul>

<p><strong>Who this is for</strong></p>

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

<p><strong>Contract and pay</strong></p>

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

Why apply

• $80 to $120/hr, paid weekly via Stripe
• 100% remote and fully async
• Shape how frontier models reason about networking
• Ongoing project work with hours you set each 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

Required qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• Certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, or JNCIA
• Network automation experience with Python or Ansible
• Cloud networking experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP