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AI Native Engineer

$70 - $100 per hour

Cayuse Holdings

Overview

Job Title: AI Native Engineer

Location: Remote

Job Type: Independent Contract (Contractor / Non-Employee)

Start Date: ASAP

Pay Rate: $70-100/hr 1099 / C2C

Contract Length: 6-8 Months - Renewable

AI Native Engineer (Context Engineer / Harness Engineer) A hands-on builder who implements features, agents, skills, and MCP integrations using Claude Code, working within an architecture defined by senior and principal engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Builds and maintains harness components (retrieval, tool invocation, evaluation, observability) under review, and contributes improvements back to the shared base harness.

  • Works through architecture- and systems-level problems under senior review as the path to progression.

Qualifications

  • Tech: Claude Code, React / TypeScript / JavaScript / Node.js front end, Python and backend data engineering, AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, API Gateway, Bedrock), Terraform, Playwright, Azure DevOps.

  • Professional English fluency, written and verbal.

  • AI-enabled and hands-on with Claude Code (or comparable agentic tooling).

  • Timezone overlap of at least 5 hours with PST working hours (8am-6pm PST).

  • Hands-on AWS delivery is required for the engineering roles

Pay Range

USD $70.00 - USD $100.00 /Hr.

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Location US-

ID 2026-4161

Category Information Technology

Position Type Independent Contractor

Remote Yes

Clearance Required None

Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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