Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

About Alignerr
Alignerr connects top technical experts with leading AI labs to build, evaluate, and improve next-generation models. We work on real production systems and high-impact research workflows across data, tooling, and infrastructure.

Position: Senior Rust Full-Stack Engineer — AI Data & Infrastructure

Type: Contract, Remote
Commitment: 20–40 hours/week
Compensation: Competitive, hourly (based on experience)

Key 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 reviews to iterate on system design and implementation decisions.

Requirements:

• Native or fluent English speaker.
• 3-5+ years of professional experience writing production Rust.
• Strong background in building distributed services using RPC frameworks and handling distributed state or consensus.
• Experience debugging complex concurrency issues (deadlocks, race conditions) using asynchronous instrumentation and tracing tools.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to commit 20–40 hours per week.

Preferred

• Prior experience with data annotation, data quality, or evaluation systems
• Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, model training, or benchmarking pipelines
• Experience with distributed systems or developer tooling

Application Process

• Submit your resume
• Complete a short technical screening
• Project matching and onboarding