Performance Engineer (C++, Python, Rust)

1 week, 3 days ago
Contract
Junior
Software Development
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Construction & Engineering
11-50
Founded 2020

Description

  • Collaborate with research and engineering teams to advance AI capabilities in systems programming, compiler optimization, runtime performance, and low-level engineering.
  • Design challenging, real-world performance engineering tasks that reflect production-scale optimization scenarios.
  • Develop accurate, well-documented solutions to complex systems programming and performance optimization problems.
  • Review and evaluate AI-generated solutions and provide detailed technical feedback on correctness, efficiency, and engineering quality.
  • Create evaluation frameworks and scoring rubrics for systems architecture, runtime optimization, compiler engineering, memory management, CPU and GPU performance, and concurrency.
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure consistency, technical accuracy, and quality across AI training datasets.
  • Contribute domain expertise to improve the reasoning capabilities of advanced AI models.

Requirements

  • Minimum 2 years of professional experience in performance engineering, systems programming, or low-level software optimization.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in at least one of C++, Python, or Rust.
  • Working familiarity with the remaining listed languages is highly desirable.
  • Proven experience delivering measurable improvements in production systems, including latency reduction, throughput optimization, memory footprint reduction, or runtime performance improvements.
  • Strong understanding of systems architecture, compiler behavior, and performance profiling techniques.
  • Demonstrated career progression with increasing technical responsibility.
  • Availability to work 40 hours per week during standard weekday business hours.
  • Excellent written communication skills with the ability to clearly explain complex engineering concepts and optimization decisions.
  • Experience optimizing large-scale distributed systems or high-performance computing workloads (preferred).
  • Knowledge of compiler internals, runtime systems, or operating system fundamentals (preferred).
  • Experience with profiling, benchmarking, and performance analysis tools (preferred).
  • Familiarity with AI infrastructure or machine learning system optimization (preferred).
  • Experience collaborating with research teams on advanced engineering projects (preferred).
  • Passion for building highly efficient, scalable software systems (preferred).
  • Applicants requiring H-1B sponsorship or participating in STEM OPT are not eligible.

Benefits

  • Compensation of $70-$110 per hour.
  • Fully remote engagement.
  • Weekly payments through Stripe or Wise.
  • Independent contractor arrangement.
  • Flexible execution according to your own schedule.
  • Potential for the project duration to be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project requirements and performance.

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