# Network Engineer - Fully Remote | Up to $90/hr

About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. Position: Network Engineering & Simulation Expert - Hephaestus Type: Contract Compensation: $70-$90/hour Location: Remote Role Responsibilities Design realistic tasks involving routing, switching, network services, segmentation, access policies, redundancy, or performance. Build reproducible network topologies and device configurations using tools such as containerlab, GNS3, EVE-NG, Mininet, ns-3, or FRRouting. Configure and debug scenarios involving technologies like BGP, OSPF, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPNs, or firewalls. Develop automated checks for reachability, route selection, policy enforcement, isolation, convergence, failover, latency, throughput, and packet loss. Produce reference configurations, traffic or failure scenarios, and verification scripts; validate both successful and deliberately incorrect cases. Review AI-generated configurations and diagnose failures. Use coding agents to support automation while independently val

- **Id**: 3910140
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mercor-network-engineer-fully-remote-up-to-90hr>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: part_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T06:24:47Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T06:24:47Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2368
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing, Freelance & Talent Marketplaces, AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 4960
- **Name**: Mercor
- **Domain**: mercor.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mercor>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.3
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **OSPF** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Stripe** — Optional: no
- **Tcpdump** — Optional: no
- **Wireshark** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T06:24:47Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: seen:3, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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