Design and build high-performance systems in Rust for AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows. Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation at scale. Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for large-scale data annotation, validation, and quality control.
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Senior Rust Engineer โ AI Data Infrastructure
About The Role
What if your mastery of Rust could directly shape the infrastructure that powers the world's most advanced AI systems? We're looking for a Senior Rust Full-Stack Engineer to build, optimize, and scale the data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems that leading AI labs depend on โ every single day.
This is a fully remote contract role for engineers who think deeply about performance, care about correctness, and want their work to matter at scale.
- Organization: Alignerr
- Type: Hourly Contract
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: 20โ40 hours/week
- Design and build high-performance, production-grade systems in Rust that underpin AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows
- Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for large-scale data annotation, validation, and quality control
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks โ from memory layout issues to concurrency inefficiencies โ and implement scalable, lasting fixes
- Improve reliability, safety, and performance across existing Rust codebases
- Collaborate closely with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation at scale
- Participate in synchronous design reviews and iterate on system architecture with sharp, opinionated engineers
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- 5+ years of professional experience writing production Rust โ this is not a learning opportunity, it's a mastery showcase
- Deep expertise in data parallelism and concurrency patterns to maximize CPU saturation
- Thorough understanding of memory layout, SIMD optimizations, and heap allocation minimization โ you find and fix performance issues others miss
- Native or fluent English speaker with clear, precise written and verbal communication
- Able to commit 20โ40 hours per week with consistency and professionalism
- Self-directed and dependable โ you deliver without hand-holding
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- Prior experience with data annotation, data quality pipelines, or AI evaluation systems
- Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, model training pipelines, or benchmarking infrastructure
- Experience with distributed systems or developer tooling at scale
- Work directly with leading AI research labs on systems that matter in production โ not toy projects
- Fully remote and async-friendly โ work from wherever you do your best thinking
- High-autonomy contract work with the depth and challenge of a senior engineering role
- Collaborate with a technically sharp, mission-driven team pushing the frontier of AI infrastructure
- Ongoing work and contract extension available as projects grow and new ones launch
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