Senior Rust Systems Engineer — AI Infrastructure (Remote)

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

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking a senior Lead Systems Engineer (Rust) for an AI platform. This fully remote hourly contract lets you shape production systems powering AI research and workflows, with flexible commitments and 20–40 hours per week.

You will design, optimize, and lead complex Rust-based systems, collaborating with data, research, and engineering teams to accelerate model training and evaluation while improving reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience writing production-grade Rust.
• Deep expertise in FFI (Foreign Function Interface) and unsafe Rust.
• Advanced knowledge of asynchronous runtimes and multi-threaded environments.
• Strong understanding of system architecture and API design.
• Experience leading system design reviews and communicating technical tradeoffs.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance systems in Rust that power AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows at scale.
• Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for large-scale data annotation, validation, and quality control.
• Own and improve reliability, performance, and safety across existing Rust codebases.
• Identify bottlenecks, edge cases, and failure modes in complex systems and implement scalable fixes.
• Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to accelerate model training and evaluation.
• Lead synchronous system design reviews and drive architectural decisions with clarity and confidence.

Skills

Rust production-grade

FFI

Unsafe Rust

Asynchronous runtimes

Multithreading

System architecture

API design

Leadership design reviews

English communication

Tools

Distributed systems

Developer tooling

Job description

Alignerr is seeking a senior Lead Systems Engineer (Rust) for an AI platform. This fully remote hourly contract lets you shape production systems powering AI research and workflows, with flexible commitments and 20–40 hours per week.

You will design, optimize, and lead complex Rust-based systems, collaborating with data, research, and engineering teams to accelerate model training and evaluation while improving reliability and performance.