Senior AI Systems Engineer - Remote Backend for Pipelines

Alignerr Corp.; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Senior-level challenges

Contract extension potential

Impactful AI infrastructure

Job summary

Alignerr Corp. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and build high-performance backend pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation infrastructure for AI research.

You will work remotely on a contract basis with 20–40 hours per week, collaborating with AI labs to scale data processing and model evaluation. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in Go, Rust, Python, or C++, strong backend experience, and a history of shipping reliable services and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Go, Rust, Python, or C++.
• Strong systems or backend engineering background with production experience.
• Proven track record building reliable services, internal tooling, or data pipelines.
• Sharp instincts for performance, reliability, and correctness at scale.
• Clear communicator — both in writing and in technical discussions.
• Able to commit 20–40 hours per week consistently.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance backend systems using Go, Rust, Python, or C++
• Develop tooling and services powering large-scale data annotation, validation, and evaluation workflows
• Build and maintain reliable data pipelines that support AI model training and benchmarking
• Improve performance, scalability, and correctness across production codebases
• Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams on model-facing infrastructure
• Identify bottlenecks, edge cases, and failure modes across systems and data flows
• Participate in architecture and implementation reviews to continuously raise the bar

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

C++

Backend engineering

Communication

Job description

Alignerr Corp. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and build high-performance backend pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation infrastructure for AI research.

You will work remotely on a contract basis with 20–40 hours per week, collaborating with AI labs to scale data processing and model evaluation. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in Go, Rust, Python, or C++, strong backend experience, and a history of shipping reliable services and data pipelines.