Senior Rust Engineer for AI Data Pipelines (Remote)

Alignerr Corp.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 28,000 - 55,000; 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 model training.

This fully remote contract role collaborates with data, research, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure at scale. You will join a distributed team focusing on performance, reliability, and correctness in production-grade Rust.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of professional experience writing production-grade Rust.
• Deep command of Rust lifetimes, ownership mechanics, and idiomatic error handling.
• Experience building I/O-bound data pipelines with robust retry/backoff logic.
• Self-directed and reliable, able to commit 20-40 hours per week.
• System-thinking: performance, fault tolerance, and correctness.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance systems in Rust supporting AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows
• Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for large-scale data annotation, validation, 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 edge cases in data and system behavior, and implement scalable fixes
• Participate in synchronous design reviews to iterate on system architecture and implementation decisions

Skills

Rust

Data pipelines

System design

Performance

Distributed systems

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 model training.

This fully remote contract role collaborates with data, research, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure at scale. You will join a distributed team focusing on performance, reliability, and correctness in production-grade Rust.