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

Work arrangement
Yes