Rust AI Security Engineer - Open Source (Remote UK)

IT Recruitment Solutions Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Recruitment Solutions Ltd is seeking a Rust Engineer for an AI security startup focused on securing autonomous AI agents and agentic systems. This fully remote role requires UK-based candidates and offers equity alongside a competitive salary.

You will contribute to core runtime, SDKs, and tooling, collaborating with senior engineers across security, observability, and developer experience, while contributing to open-source projects in the community.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building reliable, maintainable systems with Rust.
• Open-source contributions or ownership of public technical work.
• Interest in systems programming, security, infra, or tooling.
• Strong clean code, testing, debugging, and performance focus.
• Curiosity about AI systems, adversarial thinking, and secure design.
• Background in application/security or supply chain security preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, release tooling or cloud infra is a plus.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tooling responsibly.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving engineering environment.
• Excellent written communication for documentation and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core runtime, SDKs and supporting infrastructure.
• Take ownership of meaningful engineering work from day one.
• Collaborate with senior engineers across systems design, security, observability, and developer experience.
• Contribute publicly to open-source projects and communities.

Skills

Rust

Go

TypeScript

Python

Open-source contributions

Security

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Documentation

Independent work

Communication skills

Job description

IT Recruitment Solutions Ltd is seeking a Rust Engineer for an AI security startup focused on securing autonomous AI agents and agentic systems. This fully remote role requires UK-based candidates and offers equity alongside a competitive salary.

You will contribute to core runtime, SDKs, and tooling, collaborating with senior engineers across security, observability, and developer experience, while contributing to open-source projects in the community.