Remote AI & HPC Systems Engineer - C++/Rust

The AES Group; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

The AES Group is seeking a highly technical Systems Software Engineer (C++/Rust) to help build scalable AI and HPC infrastructure. You will work across the stack—from kernel-level components to distributed services—on hardware accelerators, networking, and storage.

This remote, long-term contract role offers the chance to collaborate with industry-leading engineers and contribute to data-center-scale systems, performance optimization, and future AI pipelines.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C++ and/or Rust.
• Deep understanding of Linux operating systems and systems programming.
• Experience with multithreading, concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable reading and understanding complex codebases.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies rapidly.
• Passion for building infrastructure and solving challenging technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance systems software in C++ and Rust.
• Work across Linux kernels, drivers, runtimes, operating systems, services, and applications.
• Design and optimize software for AI and HPC workloads.
• Build components that interface with GPUs, accelerators, networking, and storage systems.
• Develop distributed services that operate across large-scale compute environments.
• Investigate performance bottlenecks and optimize systems for throughput, latency, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with hardware, platform, and AI engineers to build next-generation infrastructure.
• Participate in architecture, design reviews, debugging, and performance analysis.

Skills

C++ and Rust programming

Linux systems programming

Multithreading and concurrency

Performance optimization

Debugging and troubleshooting

Reading complex codebases

Willingness to learn new tech

Infrastructure development

Tools

CUDA

OpenCL

SYCL

ROCm

InfiniBand

RDMA

Linux kernel development

Device driver development

Open-source contributions

Job description

The AES Group is seeking a highly technical Systems Software Engineer (C++/Rust) to help build scalable AI and HPC infrastructure. You will work across the stack—from kernel-level components to distributed services—on hardware accelerators, networking, and storage.

This remote, long-term contract role offers the chance to collaborate with industry-leading engineers and contribute to data-center-scale systems, performance optimization, and future AI pipelines.