Engineer - Rust Ecosystem

Huawei Research Center Germany; Dresden; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Huawei Research Center Germany is seeking an Engineer - Rust Ecosystem to advance Rust integrations within the OpenHarmony ecosystem in Dresden. You will work on cross-platform crates, UI framework adaptations, and a high-performance web rendering engine, with a focus on concurrency and performance.

Collaboration with internal teams and open-source communities is a core part of the role. You will contribute to laying foundations for third-party developers and help push Rust as a first-class

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong knowledge of Rust and C, with FFI experience.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing is a plus.
• History of contributing to open-source Rust projects is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Integrate OpenHarmony support into key Rust crates to provide cross-platform abstractions.
• Assess and integrate a high-performance cross-platform Rust UI framework for OpenHarmony.
• Contribute to developing a web rendering engine in Rust with concurrency-focused optimizations, including webview integration for OpenHarmony apps.
• Explore optimization opportunities for OpenHarmony devices on the HongMeng kernel.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and the Rust/OpenHarmony communities.

Skills

Rust

C

Concurrency

English proficiency

Open-source contributions (Rust)

Education

BSc/Master/PhD in CS or related

Tools

Rust FFI

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing

Job description

Huawei's Hilbert Research Center is a product-motivated research and development center. We do research on industrial formal methods, weak memory model and concurrency, parallelization, and the full systems stack from hardware over operating system to web/rendering engines.

Join us as a

Engineer - Rust Ecosystem (m/f/d)

OpenHarmony is a new open-source Operating System Framework developed by the OpenAtom Foundation as part of the strategy to build an independent technology platform.

In our Dresden Research Center, we are working on making Rust a first-class citizen in the OpenHarmony Ecosystem. Rust is already successfully used in several core OpenHarmony system components. Now we need your help to lay the foundations for third-party developers to seamlessly support OpenHarmony devices in their cross-platform applications and libraries.

Your mission:

• Integrate OpenHarmony support into key Rust crates providing cross-platform abstractions, allowing applications to seamlessly support OpenHamony

• Analyze and integrate a high-performance, cross-platform Rust UI framework into the OpenHarmony ecosystem

• Contribute to developing a next-generation web rendering engine written in Rust, with many different challenging opportunities including developing new algorithms to improve the concurrency and performance, integration as a webview into OpenHarmony apps

• Investigate optimization opportunities for OpenHarmony devices running on the HongMeng kernel

• Actively collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as the Rust and the OpenHarmony community

Your areas of expertise:

• BSc/Master or PhD in Computer Science or other related disciplines

• Profound knowledge of Rust and C

• Experience with the Rust-FFI

• Broad knowledge in concurrency and parallelism

• History of contributing to open-source projects (in Rust) is a plus

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing is a plus

• Passion for software quality and performance, and openness to learn from failure

• Fluent in written and spoken English

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Your rewards of working here

• Our culture is characterized by innovative power and team spirit as well as the intensive exchange of knowledge and experience within our global network.

• We offer healthy meals ranging from traditional Chinese to western delicacies in our famous company canteen.

• To keep your development ongoing, you will find a broad range of training opportunities. Many online and face-to-face training programs incl. language courses in German and Mandarin.

• Our diverse and welcoming environment is shaped by different backgrounds and around 40 individual nationalities.

• Self-responsible work in a competent, motivated and constantly growing team.

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. With 208,000 employees, Huawei is committed to develop the future information society and build a Better Connected World.