Remote Rust Systems Engineer for AI Data Pipelines

Alignerr; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking a senior Rust engineer to design and build high-performance data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems for AI model training. This is a fully remote hourly contract with 20–40 hours per week, collaborating with data, research, and engineering teams on infrastructure at scale.

Ideal candidates have 3–5+ years of production-grade Rust experience, deep knowledge of lifetimes and ownership, and a track record building robust data pipelines.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of professional experience writing production-grade Rust.
• Deep command of Rust lifetimes, ownership, and idiomatic error handling.
• Experience building I/O-bound data pipelines with robust retry/backoff logic.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance Rust systems for AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows.
• Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for large-scale data annotation 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 implement scalable fixes across data and system behavior.

Skills

Rust

Production-grade software

Data pipelines

I/O-bound systems

English communication

Job description

Alignerr is seeking a senior Rust engineer to design and build high-performance data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems for AI model training. This is a fully remote hourly contract with 20–40 hours per week, collaborating with data, research, and engineering teams on infrastructure at scale.

Ideal candidates have 3–5+ years of production-grade Rust experience, deep knowledge of lifetimes and ownership, and a track record building robust data pipelines.