Systems Software Engineer - Machine Learning Ops

Alignerr Corp.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote Work

Flexible Schedule

Freelance Autonomy

Potential for Ongoing Work andContract

Job summary

Alignerr Corp. is seeking a high-performance C++ engineer to design, build, and optimize C++ systems, data pipelines, and backend services in a fully remote, freelance capacity.

You will improve reliability and performance, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with research, data, and engineering teams on scalable AI-powered solutions. 20–40 hours/week availability is expected.

Qualifications

• Requires fluent English communication and deep C++ expertise.
• 5+ years of professional production C++ experience.
• Experience with ML frontends or inference runtimes and HW acceleration APIs; able to commit to 20–40 hours/week.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance C++ systems, data pipelines, annotation tools, and backend services.
• Improve production reliability, performance, and safety; identify bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with research, data, and engineering teams on scalable solutions.

Skills

C++

Systems Programming

Full-Stack Dev

ML Ops

ML Frameworks

Inference Runtimes

Hardware Accel

Distributed Sys

Profiling

Debugging

Backend Services

Data Pipelines

Data Annotation

Data Validation

Quality Control

SRE

Tools

CUDA

Job description

Design, build, and optimize high-performance C++ systems, data pipelines, annotation tools, and backend services supporting AI model training and evaluation. Improve production system reliability, performance, and safety, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with research, data, and engineering teams on scalable solutions.

Requirements

Requires fluent English communication, strong systems programming and full-stack development skills, deep C++ expertise, and at least five years of professional production C++ experience. Candidates should have experience with ML framework frontends or inference runtimes, familiarity with hardware acceleration APIs, and the ability to work consistently for 20–40 hours per week.

Key Skills

C++, Systems Programming, Full-Stack Development, Machine Learning Operations, AI Data Pipelines, Data Annotation, Data Validation, Quality Control, Backend Services, ML Frameworks, Inference Runtimes, Hardware Acceleration, Distributed Systems, Performance Profiling, Debugging, Systems Reliability Engineering

Benefits

• Fully Remote Work
• Flexible Schedule
• Freelance Autonomy
• Potential for Ongoing Work and Contract Extension