Systems Software Engineer - Machine Learning Ops
Alignerr · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineeringContract
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and optimize high-performance C++ systems 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 C++ codebases used in production AI environments
- 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, maintainable fixes
- Participate in synchronous design reviews to iterate on system architecture and implementation decisions
Who You Are
- Native or fluent English speaker with clear written and verbal communication skills
- Full-stack developer with a strong systems programming background and deep C++ expertise
- 5+ years of professional experience writing production C++ code
- Experienced working with the C++ frontends of ML frameworks or inference runtimes
- Familiar with hardware acceleration APIs for optimizing model inference
- Able to commit 20–40 hours per week with consistency and reliability
Nice to Have
- Prior experience with data annotation, data quality pipelines, or evaluation systems
- Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, model training, or benchmarking pipelines
- Experience with distributed systems design or developer tooling
- Background in performance profiling, debugging, or systems reliability engineering