Software Engineer - Python (Advanced)

Software Engineer – Python (Advanced) About The Role What if your Python expertise could directly influence how AI systems reason about code, data, and complex engineering problems? We're looking for seasoned Python engineers to work on challenging, real-world technical problems that sit at the frontier of AI development — building, evaluating, and improving the software and data workflows that power next-generation AI systems. This is a fully remote, flexible contract role built for engineers who thrive on autonomy, love solving hard problems, and can bring production-level discipline to ambiguous challenges.

Organization: Alignerr

Type: Hourly Contract

Location: Remote

Commitment: 10–40 hours/week What You'll Do Design, implement, and optimize advanced Python code for production-level systems and AI-driven workflows

Analyze and manipulate structured datasets to support engineering and modeling tasks

Write and optimize complex SQL queries to extract, transform, and validate data

Review, debug, and improve existing codebases for performance, reliability, and maintainability

Translate ambiguous, high-level requirements into concrete, well-reasoned technical solutions

Evaluate tradeoffs and recommend best-fit approaches using consulting-style problem solving

Document assumptions, decisions, and implementation details clearly and precisely

Assess AI-generated code and analytical outputs for correctness and quality Who You Are Must-Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience

Advanced proficiency in Python — clean architecture, performance optimization, and debugging

Strong hands-on experience with real-world data analysis and structured datasets

Solid SQL skills, including complex queries, joins, and data validation

Prior consulting or client-facing experience, with the ability to reason through open-ended problems independently Nice to Have Experience working with large, messy, or unstructured datasets

Familiarity with backend systems, REST APIs, or data pipelines

Comfort evaluating and critiquing AI-generated code or analytical outputs

Strong written communication and meticulous attention to detail Why Join Us Work on cutting-edge AI projects alongside leading research labs

Fully remote and flexible — work when and where it suits you

Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, task-based engineering work

Apply your deepest technical skills to problems that genuinely matter at scale

Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch