Senior Rust Engineer: AI Data Pipelines (Remote)

Alignerr Corp.; United States; Remote; GBP 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Alignerr Corp. is seeking a senior Rust engineer to design and build high-performance data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems powering AI workloads. This fully remote contract role requires 20–40 hours per week and collaboration with world-class data, research, and engineering teams.

You will contribute to production-grade Rust code, improve reliability, and help shape architecture for scalable AI infrastructure used across leading labs.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of professional Rust production experience.
• Strong knowledge of Rust lifetimes and idiomatic error handling.
• Experience building I/O-bound data pipelines with robust retry/backoff logic.
• Fluent written and spoken English communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance Rust systems for AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows.
• Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for data annotation, validation, and quality control at scale.
• Improve reliability, performance, and safety across existing Rust codebases.
• Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation workflows.
• Participate in design reviews to iterate on system architecture and implementation decisions.

Skills

Rust

Data pipelines

Retry/backoff

Distributed systems

English communication

Job description

Alignerr Corp. is seeking a senior Rust engineer to design and build high-performance data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems powering AI workloads. This fully remote contract role requires 20–40 hours per week and collaboration with world-class data, research, and engineering teams.

You will contribute to production-grade Rust code, improve reliability, and help shape architecture for scalable AI infrastructure used across leading labs.