Rust Engineer

SME Careers is seeking Rust Engineers to help evaluate and improve advanced AI systems on Rust programming, systems engineering, backend development, and low-level software reasoning tasks.

This fully remote contract opportunity focuses on:

• Rust code evaluation
• AI-generated solution review
• Systems programming analysis
• Ownership and concurrency reasoning
• Backend engineering workflows
• AI training content generation

Contributors will help improve how frontier AI systems understand, generate, debug, and explain Rust code across systems programming and backend engineering environments.

This is part of SME Careers’ expert network program for future AI training and evaluation projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and evaluate AI-generated Rust solutions for:

  • Technical correctness
  • Safety
  • Ownership handling
  • Borrowing logic
  • Prompt adherence
  • Idiomatic Rust patterns

• Create and refine:

  • Rust-focused AI prompts
  • Technical explanations
  • Model coding solutions
  • Systems programming scenarios

• Identify:

  • Ownership mistakes
  • Borrowing violations
  • Lifetime issues
  • Concurrency bugs
  • Error handling problems
  • Unsafe patterns
  • Algorithmic flaws

• Evaluate and compare AI-generated responses based on:

  • Correctness
  • Safety
  • Performance
  • Maintainability
  • Idiomatic Rust usage

• Assess AI performance across topics such as:

  • Ownership and borrowing
  • Lifetimes
  • Traits and generics
  • Pattern matching
  • Async Rust
  • Tokio
  • Actix
  • Serde
  • Systems programming
  • Backend services
  • CLI tools
  • Concurrency and performance

• Test AI systems for:

  • Reliability
  • Hallucinations
  • Unsafe coding suggestions
  • Incorrect reasoning
  • Technical inconsistencies

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 1–2 years of professional Rust development experience

• Experience building:

  • Backend systems
  • CLI tools
  • Systems-focused software

• Strong understanding of:

  • Ownership
  • Borrowing
  • Lifetimes
  • Aliasing
  • Data races
  • Rust safety guarantees

• Ability to evaluate:

  • Safe Rust code
  • Idiomatic Rust patterns
  • Traits and generics
  • Error handling approaches

• Strong experience using:

  • LLMs
  • AI coding assistants
  • AI-assisted programming workflows

• Bachelor’s degree in:

  • Computer Science
  • Software Engineering
  • Related technical disciplines

• Excellent English writing and technical communication skills

• Minimum C1 English proficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:

  • Tokio
  • Actix
  • Serde
  • Async Rust in production systems

• Open-source Rust contributions

• Competitive programming experience

• Experience reasoning about:

  • Concurrency
  • Correctness
  • Performance optimization

• Experience with:

  • AI training
  • AI annotation
  • AI evaluation
  • Large-scale code review

Additional Information

• No immediate active project
• Qualified experts will join SME Careers’ expert network for future opportunities
• Flexible remote work schedule
• Weekly payments after approved work
• Referral bonus opportunities available

About SME Careers

SME Careers is an AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate focused on improving frontier AI systems through expert software engineering evaluation and AI training workflows.

The company partners with major AI labs and foundation model developers to improve coding accuracy, systems reasoning, and technical communication in advanced AI systems.