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AI Native Engineer
United StatesRemote
AI Summary
An independent contractor who builds and maintains AI harness components including retrieval, tool invocation, evaluation, and observability using Claude Code, working under senior engineering review.
About this role
Overview
Job Title: AI Native EngineerLocation: 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
Skills
AWS API GatewayAWS BedrockAWS DynamoDBAWS LambdaAWS S3AWS Step FunctionsAzure DevOpsClaude CodeJavaScriptNode.jsPlaywrightPythonReactTerraformTypeScript
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