AI Native Engineer

$70 - $100 per hour

Cayuse Holdings

Helena, MT

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

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Location US-

ID 2026-4161

Category Information Technology

Position Type Independent Contractor

Remote Yes

Clearance Required None

Pay Range USD $70.00 - USD $100.00 /Hr.

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