Senior ML Engineer: LLM Reasoning Architect (Remote)

Alignerr Corp.; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 147,000 - 295,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to author high‑fidelity reasoning traces that teach LLMs to think step by step. This fully remote, flexible contract role offers 10–40 hours per week and independence to work on your own schedule.

You will design data strategies and review traces, shaping how models reason, plan, and use tools in complex tasks with a focus on rigorous documentation and scalable thinking.

Qualifications

• Experience in machine learning or AI research
• Ability to decompose problems into explicit steps
• Familiar with LLM evaluation methodologies and training pipelines
• Clear, precise technical writing of complex reasoning
• Detail-oriented and rigorous; self-directed and dependable

Responsibilities

• Author high-fidelity reasoning traces guiding LLM planning, tool use, and decision making
• Break down complex problems into clear, logical steps
• Review and refine traces from other contributors for quality and depth
• Design data strategies to help models navigate multi-step scenarios
• Provide architectural insights to improve handling of edge cases and failure modes
• Work independently and asynchronously on your own schedule

Skills

Machine learning

Technical writing

Independent work

Problem decomposition

RLHF

Tools

Tool-use frameworks

Chain-of-thought prompting

Agentic AI systems

Job description

Alignerr is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to author high‑fidelity reasoning traces that teach LLMs to think step by step. This fully remote, flexible contract role offers 10–40 hours per week and independence to work on your own schedule.

You will design data strategies and review traces, shaping how models reason, plan, and use tools in complex tasks with a focus on rigorous documentation and scalable thinking.