
SQL Analytics Engineer Expert
Listing checked October 29, 2026 · pay as published by AfterQuery
Key details
- Pay
- $80/hr
- Location
- Remote
- Job type
- contract
- Posted
- September 17, 2026
Overview
Frontier AI labs turn to AfterQuery for the expert evaluation data they use to judge how well a model handles real professional work. This contract puts SQL and data modeling judgment at the center of that effort: you build the analytics scenarios those evaluations run on, then grade what a model hands back. Each case starts at raw tables and ends with tested models, so the job covers joins, window functions, CTEs and warehouse cost as much as syntax. The setup stays remote and async, with no screen recording, keystroke monitoring or idle timers.
What You'll Do5
- Build realistic analytics scenarios that carry a case from raw tables through to tested data models, keeping each one close to how a working engineer would tackle it.
- Write reference answers that lay out the modeling choice and the query logic behind every step.
- Score model output on SQL correctness and on how the query behaves in the warehouse.
- Flag submissions that read clean but return wrong rows or burn needless compute.
- Document your modeling rationale in clear written English so other reviewers can follow each decision.
Requirements8
- Two or more years in analytics engineering, or analytics work built around heavy SQL.
- Expert command of joins, window functions, CTEs and query optimization.
- Hands on use of a modern warehouse such as BigQuery, Snowflake or Redshift.
- Written English strong enough to explain why a model or query took the shape it did.
- Availability for at least 10 hours each week.
- Preferred: dbt or another transformation framework.
- Preferred: dimensional or semantic data modeling experience.
- Preferred: orchestration exposure through Airflow, Dagster or similar.
Who Should Apply
Analytics engineers with 2+ years of SQL-heavy work who want a hand in how AI models reason about data. You should move with ease inside BigQuery, Snowflake or Redshift, and you can put a modeling decision into plain writing that another engineer follows without asking questions.
Salary Insight
The posting lists $80.00/hr, and AfterQuery places each contractor inside a $60 to $100/hr band based on experience instead of renegotiating once work begins. Payment arrives each week through Stripe. The top of that band tends to track people with deeper warehouse and modeling history, so the posted number fits someone a few years into analytics engineering.
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