[Hiring] Network Simulation Engineer @Mercor

Role Description

• 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

• 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Hourly contractor.
• Paid weekly via Stripe Connect.

Application Process

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

Resources & Support

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• Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.