Network Engineering Expert (Remote | $70-$90/hr)

Network Engineering (Remote | $70–$90/hr)

Position: Network Engineering

Type: Hourly Contract

Compensation:

• Writers: $70–$80 per hour
• Reviewers: $90 per hour

Location: Remote

About the Opportunity

Contribute to an AI research project focused on enterprise, data-center, cloud, and service-provider networking. Use your network engineering expertise to build executable technical tasks, reproducible simulated or emulated topologies, and reference solutions.

The work involves configuring and troubleshooting networks, validating expected behaviour, developing automated verification checks, and evaluating AI-generated network configurations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design realistic technical tasks involving routing, switching, network services, segmentation, access policies, redundancy, and network performance.
• Build reproducible network topologies and device configurations using tools such as Containerlab, GNS3, EVE-NG, Mininet, ns-3, FRRouting, or equivalent platforms.
• Configure and troubleshoot networking technologies, including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPNs, and firewalls.
• Develop automated verification checks for reachability, route selection, policy enforcement, network isolation, convergence, failover, latency, throughput, and packet loss.
• Validate network behaviour through live testing and configuration inspection.
• Create reference configurations, traffic scenarios, failure scenarios, and verification scripts.
• Test both successful configurations and deliberately incorrect cases.
• Package topology files, configurations, dependencies, scripts, packet captures, and results for reproducibility.
• Review AI-generated network configurations, diagnose failures, and independently validate network behaviour.
• Use coding agents to support automation and improve task development workflows.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional network engineering experience with direct responsibility for enterprise, data-center, cloud, or service-provider networks.
• Strong hands-on expertise in routing, switching, network troubleshooting, and network policies.
• Experience building network labs, simulations, or emulations.
• Familiarity with network analysis tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, or iperf.
• Ability to write and debug automation using Python, shell scripting, Ansible, or comparable tools.
• Strong understanding of network protocol behaviour, failure modes, measurement limitations, and the differences between simulated and production environments.
• Ability to develop repeatable network setups and verification workflows.
• Clear technical communication and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant networking certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, or JNCIP.
• Experience with network test automation.
• Familiarity with multiple network simulation and emulation platforms.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated network configurations and troubleshooting automated network tasks.

Compensation & Engagement

• Writers: $70–$80 per hour.
• Reviewers: $90 per hour.
• Hourly contract engagement.
• Remote work.
• Specific contract duration, working hours, and payment schedule were not specified in the provided listing.

Contract and Payment Terms

Detailed contract and payment terms were not included in the provided listing and should be confirmed during the application process.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants are considered without discrimination based on legally protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.