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Remote Systems Engineer Contract Jobs in Orange, NJ

Cloudacio

Data Engineer (Contract) (Remote)

Manhattan, NY · Remote

$126K - $151K/yr

Embracing a remote and flexible work philosophy, we offer our team the freedom to collaborate and innovate from anywhere in the world. Role Overview: We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join ...

My IT Crew

Senior Systems Engineer (Remote)

Brooklyn, NY · Remote

$109K - $150K/yr

This position is fully remote anywhere in the United States. Ready to get off the IT machine and ... Senior Systems Engineer Duties and Responsibilities * Be Fanatically awesome all the time! * Be an ...

My IT Crew

Senior Systems Engineer (Remote)

Brooklyn, NY · On-site +1

$85K - $100K/yr

This position is fully remote anywhere in the United States. Ready to get off the IT machine and ... Senior Systems Engineer Duties and Responsibilities * Be Fanatically awesome all the time! * Be an ...

My IT Crew

Senior Systems Engineer (Remote)

Brooklyn, NY · Remote

$107K - $146K/yr

This position is fully remote anywhere in the United States. Ready to get off the IT machine and ... Senior Systems Engineer Duties and Responsibilities * Be Fanatically awesome all the time! * Be an ...

Axiom

Distributed Systems Engineer

New York, NY · On-site +1

$125K - $250K/yr

Our office is in NYC and working in person in NY is our strong preference, but we're open to remote ... smart contract applications. You will be responsible for building Rust-based rollup nodes and ...

Eastern Communications

Senior Systems Engineer

New York, NY · Remote

$107K - $146K/yr

Provide Systems Engineering project ownership after contract award including final design and equipment selection, implementation, as-built documentation, factory and on-site installation, and system ...

CoreWeave

Systems Engineer, VDI Platform

Livingston, NJ · Remote

This role owns that expansion as the sole DRI for the Next Gen VDI platform: the remote-compute ... About the Role As the Systems Engineer for Next Gen VDI, you will own both the cloud infrastructure ...

CoreWeave

Systems Engineer, VDI Platform

New York, NY · Remote

This role owns that expansion as the sole DRI for the Next Gen VDI platform: the remote-compute ... About the Role As the Systems Engineer for Next Gen VDI, you will own both the cloud infrastructure ...

PermitFlow

Design Systems Engineer

New York, NY · Remote

$190K - $250K/yr

Role Overview As a Design System Engineer, you'll be the technical steward of the component library ... API contracts, design token usage, prop interfaces, and variant patterns * Review PRs into the ...

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As of Aug 11, 2026, the average yearly pay for remote systems engineer contract in Orange, NJ is $129,078.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $99,400.00 and $159,300.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.
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Systems Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

Mercor

New York, NY • Remote

$85/hr

Full-time

Re-posted 23 days ago

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Systems Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex engineering tasks.
  • Review model-generated code, architecture decisions, and systems implementations.
  • Identify bugs, edge cases, performance bottlenecks, and failure modes.
  • Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic systems engineering scenarios.
  • Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 2+ years of professional systems engineering experience.
  • Experience with distributed systems, networking, operating systems, storage systems, infrastructure software, or database internals.
  • Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
  • Ability to evaluate model-generated systems designs and implementations.

Preferred

  • Experience building highly scalable and performance-critical systems.

Compensation & Legal

  • $400 per accepted task
  • Compensation is tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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

Resources & Support

  • For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
  • For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

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