Network Simulation Engineer Expert

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 DAngelo 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 validating network behavior.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5 years of professional network engineering experience with enterprise data-center cloud or service-provider networks.
• Strong hands-on routing switching troubleshooting and network-policy skills.
• Experience building network labs simulations or emulations and analyzing traffic with tools such as Wireshark tcpdump or iperf.
• Ability to write and debug Python shell Ansible or comparable automation.
• Sound judgment about protocol behavior failure modes and measurement limitations.

Preferred

• Relevant certifications such as CCNP CCIE or JNCIP.
• Experience with network test automation.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor
• Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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