AI Research Engineer

A remote freelance role for a Technical Product Lead to translate complex telecom product ideas into technical concepts, lead development, and manage projects in web-based telecom services.

Location: Remote

Salary: 2000 EUR/month

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level product and business ideas into clear technical concepts, specifications, user stories, and development tickets
• Lead and coordinate a small remote developer team
• Break down complex telecom/ISP workflows into practical web application features
• Define MVPs, priorities, milestones, and delivery plans
• Review developer output from a functional and technical perspective
• Challenge unclear requirements, weak architecture, and poor implementation choices
• Ensure that web applications are built with scalability, maintainability, security, and operational reality in mind
• Help design customer portals, admin backends, provisioning flows, billing-related workflows, APIs, dashboards, and internal tools
• Identify technical risks, blockers, dependencies, and missing pieces early
• Keep projects moving without unnecessary meetings or corporate overhead
• Report progress, risks, and decisions directly to the General Manager

Requirements

• Strong understanding of web applications, APIs, databases, backend systems, and software delivery
• Profound knowledge of Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, other distros) environments
• Good understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, routing, IPv4/IPv6, firewalls, VPNs and related infrastructure
• Experience working with developers and turning requirements into clear technical tasks
• Ability to structure complex systems into manageable modules, milestones, and deliverables
• Practical understanding of security, monitoring, logging, reliability, and operational requirements
• Experience working in remote teams
• Strong written communication skills in English
• Perfect English grammar without using AI
• Ability to work independently and take ownership