Are you a hands-on enterprise network engineer — Level 3 / Tier 3 support, network operations, or the person your team escalates to — interested in data science and autonomous infrastructure? Our client is building vertically integrated networking systems and using the data they generate to power the next generation of AI-driven infrastructure.

This is a hands-on role that blends your troubleshooting and incident-response experience with a growing understanding of how data pipelines are built and used in AI systems.

This is an ongoing talent network rather than a single open vacancy. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and interview rounds run periodically as the client opens new headcount. Completing the technical practicum now means your profile is ready to be put forward as soon as the next round opens — there's no need to reapply later.

You will be engaged as an independent contractor.

Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.

• Review real-world data from deployed networks: logs, configs, telemetry, event streams.
• Label and classify network behaviors, issues, anomalies, and incident patterns.
• Help define schemas and structure for large-scale data pipelines that downstream ML models will train on.
• You will interface directly with the client team.

• Hands-on experience operating enterprise production networks — switches, access points and firewalls — in end-customer environments such as retail, healthcare, financial, manufacturing, university or hospitality.
• At least 5 years of experience in network engineering, network operations or network support roles.
• Currently, or most recently, working in a hands-on network engineering, network operations or network support role.
• This is a maintainer role — likely not the right fit if your current work is mainly network design/architecture, cloud/SRE, security/SOC, or IT helpdesk.
• Your work will directly feed into the pipelines that power client's AI models, and help shape how intelligent systems reason about networks in the real world.

Work arrangement: Fully remote

Eligible countries: Canada, United States

• You must be authorized to work in the US or Canada without sponsorship. Please note this project cannot accommodate F-1 STEM OPT, as Mercor is unable to sign Form I-983. Standard F-1 OPT is fine.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

• This is an individual 1099 contract paid to a personal account — no corp-to-corp or agency billing.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.