Rust Software Engineer for High-Assurance AI

CommonAI CIC; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

Professional development

Cambridge office near train station

Job summary

CommonAI CIC is hiring a Software Engineer to work on Panopticon, a high-assurance AI framework designed for regulated sectors. The role focuses on building secure Rust components, enforcing governance, and integrating foundation models safely.

You will leverage LLMs, AI agents, and cutting-edge tooling to accelerate development, implement robust validation pipelines, and collaborate with members to deliver production-ready software.

Qualifications

• Proven Rust development experience and secure systems design.
• Experience with LLMs and AI agents for coding workflows.
• Strong debugging, latency, and scalability focus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core components of the Panopticon framework using idiomatic Rust.
• Develop secure execution environments, multi-model validation pipelines, and intelligent filtering systems to prevent data leakage and policy violations.
• Extensively use LLMs, AI agents, and coding copilots to write, test, and refactor code and accelerate feature deployment.
• Architect systems that safely integrate with foundation models and user environments with governance.
• Review AI-generated code for security, performance, correctness and optimise CI/CD for AI workflows.
• Collaborate with CommonAI members to translate compliance protocols into production-ready software.

Skills

Rust

Software architecture

LLMs for coding

Secure coding

Debugging complex systems

Latency optimization

Tools

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

WebAssembly

Containers

Job description

CommonAI CIC is hiring a Software Engineer to work on Panopticon, a high-assurance AI framework designed for regulated sectors. The role focuses on building secure Rust components, enforcing governance, and integrating foundation models safely.

You will leverage LLMs, AI agents, and cutting-edge tooling to accelerate development, implement robust validation pipelines, and collaborate with members to deliver production-ready software.