Remote Performance Engineer: C++, Python, Rust for AI Systems

Weekday AI; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI is seeking a Performance Engineer for a fully remote, US-based contract role. Bring 2+ years in performance engineering or low-level optimization, and hands-on experience with C++, Python, or Rust to optimize production systems, latency, throughput, and memory usage.

You will work with AI researchers to design and evaluate tasks, create evaluation frameworks, and provide precise feedback on correctness and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in performance engineering, systems programming, or low-level software optimization.
• Hands-on expertise in C++, Python or Rust.
• Proven improvements in production systems including latency, throughput, and memory usage.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to improve AI systems through performance optimization.
• Design real-world performance tasks reflecting production-scale scenarios.
• Develop well-documented solutions to complex systems problems.
• Review AI-generated solutions and provide technical feedback on correctness and efficiency.
• Create evaluation frameworks and rubrics for systems architecture, runtime, memory, and parallel performance.
• Collaborate to ensure consistency and quality across AI training datasets.
• Contribute domain expertise to advanced AI model reasoning.

Skills

C++

Python

Rust

Job description

Weekday AI is seeking a Performance Engineer for a fully remote, US-based contract role. Bring 2+ years in performance engineering or low-level optimization, and hands-on experience with C++, Python, or Rust to optimize production systems, latency, throughput, and memory usage.

You will work with AI researchers to design and evaluate tasks, create evaluation frameworks, and provide precise feedback on correctness and efficiency.