Systems Programmer
alignerrSeattle (WA)
About the role
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. Systems Programmer — AI Data Pipelines
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 skills3–5+ years of professional experience writing production RustDeep 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 AIPotential for ongoing work and contract extension across new projects as they launch
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