Senior Rust Engineer — Embedded Systems & Open Source

Fast Forward; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer pension (12.5% cap)

33 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Group income protection

Life insurance

Sabbatical after 4 years

Job summary

lowRISC, a Cambridge-based non-profit, is seeking skilled software engineers to work on RISC-V firmware, toolchains, and embedded OS development. You will contribute across the stack, from firmware to cloud-based tests, and help advance open-source silicon building blocks.

Ideal candidates have strong Rust expertise, low-level systems knowledge, and experience with open source projects. English communication is essential; familiarity with LLVM, Bazel, and CI/CD for embedded systems is a plus.

Qualifications

• Must have strong Rust skills with ownership, lifetimes, concurrency, and memory management.
• Experience with open source projects and contribution habits.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Experience with embedded or resource-constrained environments or real-time systems.

Skills

Rust programming

C language

Open source contributions

English proficiency

Low-level systems programming

Tools

LLVM

QEMU

Bazel

Nix

CI/CD

Job description

lowRISC, a Cambridge-based non-profit, is seeking skilled software engineers to work on RISC-V firmware, toolchains, and embedded OS development. You will contribute across the stack, from firmware to cloud-based tests, and help advance open-source silicon building blocks.

Ideal candidates have strong Rust expertise, low-level systems knowledge, and experience with open source projects. English communication is essential; familiarity with LLVM, Bazel, and CI/CD for embedded systems is a plus.