Remote Rust Architect for AI Backend (Part-Time, 15h/wk)

OpenTrain AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

OpenTrain AI, Inc. is seeking a remote contractor to tackle Rust backend challenges, focusing on correctness, reliability, scalability, and production readiness. The role offers ~15 hours per week with flexible scheduling and fully remote work.

Candidates should demonstrate strong practical Rust skills from professional, research, or open-source work. The engagement emphasizes architecture decisions and repeatable testing workflows in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Experience: Entry level
• Strong practical Rust skills from substantial professional, research, or open-source software work.
• Ability to work remotely with flexible, 15-hour per week schedule.

Responsibilities

• Solve and validate Rust backend problems involving service behavior, APIs, persistence, concurrency, performance, and reliability.
• Turn functional requirements and performance targets into repeatable implementation and testing workflows.
• Prepare Rust crate workspaces, configuration files, test fixtures, dependency services, databases, and containerized environments.
• Analyze backend behavior and judge correctness, scalability, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Debug complex backend behavior and validate expected failure handling.

Skills

Rust

Backend

APIs

Concurrency

Performance

Reliability

Testing

Job description

OpenTrain AI, Inc. is seeking a remote contractor to tackle Rust backend challenges, focusing on correctness, reliability, scalability, and production readiness. The role offers ~15 hours per week with flexible scheduling and fully remote work.

Candidates should demonstrate strong practical Rust skills from professional, research, or open-source work. The engagement emphasizes architecture decisions and repeatable testing workflows in a distributed environment.