Systems Programmer - AI Data Pipelines
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About the Role What if your Rust expertise could directly shape the infrastructure powering the next generation of AI? We're looking for a senior Rust engineer to design and build high-performance data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems used by leading AI research labs. This is a fully remote contract role with meaningful technical depth — real production systems, high-impact engineering decisions, and direct collaboration with some of the best research teams in AI. - Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 20–40 hours/week What You'll Do - Design, build, and optimize high-performance Rust systems supporting large-scale AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows - Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for data annotation, validation, and quality control at scale - Improve reliability, performance, and safety across existing Rust codebases - Identify and resolve bottlenecks and edge cases in data and system behavior - Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation workflows - Participate in synchronous design reviews and iterate on architecture and implementation decisions Who You Are - Native or fluent English speaker with strong written and verbal communication skills - 3–5+ years of professional experience writing production Rust - Deep command of Rust lifetimes, ownership mechanics, and idiomatic error handling - Proven experience building I/O-bound data pipelines with robust retry/backoff logic for production systems - Able to commit 20–40 hours per week with consistency and reliability Nice to Have - Prior experience with data annotation, data quality, or evaluation systems - Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, model training, or benchmarking pipelines - Experience with distributed systems or developer tooling - Background contributing to or maintaining large Rust codebases Why Join Us - Work on production systems that directly influence how leading AI labs build and evaluate next-generation models - Fully remote and async-friendly — work from wherever you do your best engineering - Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, technically challenging work - Collaborate with top-tier researchers and engineers across data, infrastructure, and AI - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension across new projects as they launch
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