Job Overview
Job TitleSenior Rust Engineer - AI Data Infrastructure
Job TypeContractor
Offered Salary$150,000
LocationHybrid
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Job Description
About The Job
Alignerr connects top technical experts with leading AI labs to build, evaluate, and improve next-generation models. We work on real production systems and high-impact research workflows across data, tooling, and infrastructure.
Position
Senior Rust Full-Stack Engineer — AI Data & Infrastructure
- Type: Contract
- Remote
- Commitment: 20–40 hours/week
- Compensation: Competitive, hourly (based on experience)
Role Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize high-performance systems in Rust supporting AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows
- Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for large-scale data annotation, validation, and quality control
- Improve reliability, performance, and safety across existing Rust codebases
- Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation workflows
- Identify bottlenecks and edge cases in data and system behavior, and implement scalable fixes
- Participate in synchronous reviews to iterate on system design and implementation decisions
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native or fluent English speaker
- 5+ years of professional experience writing production Rust.
- Expertise in data parallelism and concurrency patterns to maximize CPU saturation.
- Deep understanding of memory layout, SIMD optimizations, and minimizing heap allocations to identify and fix performance bottlenecks.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to commit 20–40 hours per week.
Preferred
- 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
Application Process
- Submit your resume
- Complete a short technical screening
- Project matching and onboarding
Key skills/competency
- Rust
- Data Infrastructure
- High Performance Computing
- AI Data Pipelines
- System Design
- Concurrency
- Rust Optimization
- SIMD
- Full-Stack Tooling
- Data Quality
How to Get Hired at Alignerr
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your 5+ years of Rust experience and specific achievements in performance optimization and concurrency for AI/HPC systems.
- Showcase Rust expertise: Emphasize your deep understanding of memory layout, SIMD, and minimizing heap allocations in your application.
- Ace the technical screening: Prepare to demonstrate your problem-solving skills in Rust, focusing on performance-critical areas relevant to data infrastructure.
- Prepare for collaboration: Be ready to discuss your experience working with data, research, and engineering teams to support AI workflows.
- Express commitment: Clearly state your availability for 20-40 hours per week in your application.
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