Senior Technical Architect | $60-$130/hr Remote
Overview
This contractor role offers a chance to apply deep platform engineering expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. You'll design Reinforcement Learning environments that challenge AI models to handle real-world production infrastructure tasks. Your work directly shapes how these models learn to design, deploy, and manage cloud systems — no prior AI experience needed, just solid hands-on production ownership.
What You'll Do5
- 1Design realistic cloud infrastructure tasks covering distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
- 2Build reproducible, containerized environments that include correct solutions alongside deliberately flawed variants to test model reasoning.
- 3Define measurable requirements for infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
- 4Develop deterministic tests for integration, load, security, failure injection, deployment, and recovery scenarios.
- 5Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts to maintain quality standards.
Requirements5
- 1Senior-level experience in technical architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE, including direct ownership of a production platform.
- 2Deep knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and handling partial-failure scenarios.
- 3Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
- 4Proven ability to implement observability, set SLOs, manage rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery plans.
- 5Comfort writing infrastructure automation or testing tools and debugging containerized environments using a relevant programming language.
Who Should Apply
This role is for experienced cloud architects and platform engineers who want to put their production knowledge to a new use — training AI. You enjoy building complex, realistic infrastructure scenarios and have a knack for creating automated tests and reproducible environments. You're comfortable owning the full lifecycle of infrastructure decisions and are eager to shape how AI systems learn reliability.
Salary Insight
Compensation is output-based at $60–$130 per hour, paid per task that meets project specifications. Experts must submit a minimum number of tasks per week, and work volume may vary based on experience and workflow.
Required Skills
Application Tip
When applying, describe one specific production infrastructure challenge you owned — such as a multi-region deployment or a disaster recovery drill — to demonstrate your hands-on depth.
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