Remote | Senior Network Support Engineer (AI Data Annotation) — $40–$60/hour at 24-MAG
New York, NY
$40–$60/hrfrom the description
Aug 14, 2026
New York, NY
Aug 18, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A remote contract role for senior network support engineers who will review and annotate real production networking data — logs, configurations, telemetry, and event streams — to build training datasets for AI-driven autonomous networking systems. Day-to-day work blends deep L3/Tier-3 troubleshooting judgment (packet analysis, wireless diagnostics, incident RCA) with structured data labeling and schema definition for machine learning pipelines. Best suited to operational network maintainers with final-escalation and on-call experience, not architects or security/SOC specialists.
Senior level · Remote · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 14,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 2,950–21,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is genuinely hybrid: roughly half the work is senior L3 network operations/troubleshooting (15-1244) and half is structuring data for machine learning pipelines (15-2051). 15-1244 was chosen because the primary qualification and day-to-day judgment demanded is operational networking, not data science or ML modeling.
No overall years-of-experience figure is stated; seniority is inferred from the explicit L3/Tier-3 framing and final-escalation/on-call requirements.
Wireshark, tcpdump, and SPAN are listed together as interchangeable packet-capture tools in the requirements; Wireshark is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Cisco WLC, Aruba, and Meraki are listed as interchangeable enterprise wireless platforms in the requirements; Cisco WLC is used as the primary name.
The posting explicitly excludes corp-to-corp and agency billing; only individual contractor (1099/independent) arrangements are accepted.
Work hours must overlap with Pacific Time business hours; the role is fully remote and open to candidates in the US or Canada (no sponsorship available).
ML training data / data annotation appears as a supporting responsibility and interest area rather than a hard gate, so it is marked preferred.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): enterprise Wi-Fi / WLAN, packet analysis, network incident response / RCA, ML training data / data annotation.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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