Backend Developer - AI Data Services
Seattle, WA
Contract
Remote
1 month ago
About the role
Backend Developer — AI Data Services
About The Role
What if your C# expertise could directly shape the infrastructure powering next-generation AI? We're looking for a Senior C# Full-Stack Engineer to build and optimize the data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems that leading AI labs depend on every day.
This is a fully remote contract role with meaningful, high-impact work. You won't be maintaining legacy CRUD apps — you'll be solving real engineering problems at the frontier of AI development.
What You'll Do
Who You Are
Nice to Have
Why Join Us
About The Role
What if your C# expertise could directly shape the infrastructure powering next-generation AI? We're looking for a Senior C# Full-Stack Engineer to build and optimize the data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems that leading AI labs depend on every day.
This is a fully remote contract role with meaningful, high-impact work. You won't be maintaining legacy CRUD apps — you'll be solving real engineering problems at the frontier of AI development.
- Organization: Alignerr
- Type: Hourly Contract
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: 20–40 hours/week
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and optimize high-performance C# systems supporting AI data pipelines and model evaluation workflows
- Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for large-scale data annotation, validation, and quality control
- Improve reliability, performance, and safety across production C# codebases
- Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation infrastructure
- Identify bottlenecks and edge cases in data and system behavior, then implement scalable, production-ready fixes
- Participate in synchronous design reviews to iterate on 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
- 5+ years of professional experience writing production-grade C#
- Experienced in data modeling and database access using ORM frameworks or micro-ORMs for high-performance SQL interactions
- Proven ability to build secure, well-documented endpoints for data access and manipulation
- Able to commit 20–40 hours per week consistently
Nice to Have
- Prior experience with data annotation, data quality pipelines, or evaluation systems
- Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, model training, or benchmarking infrastructure
- Experience with distributed systems or developer tooling at scale
Why Join Us
- Work on real production systems alongside researchers and engineers at leading AI labs
- Fully remote and async-friendly — work from wherever you do your best work
- Freelance autonomy with the structure and consistency of ongoing, meaningful project work
- Gain direct exposure to cutting-edge AI development at the infrastructure level
- Potential for extended engagement as projects evolve and new workstreams launch
Skills
Technology, Information and Internet