Senior Rust Engineer - High-Performance Cheminformatics

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working (50/50)

Career growth in a small, growing team

Collaboration with international teams

Meaningful scientific software

Job summary

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd in Glasgow is seeking an experienced Rust Software Engineer to join a small, growing team. You will build high-performance Rust components and turn complex scientific algorithms into safe, efficient code, integrating with the company\'s established C++ codebase.

You\'ll collaborate with chemistry SMEs and colleagues in Germany and France, mentor junior developers, and help define the architecture and testing strategies for robust software in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Significant commercial Rust experience, especially in performance-sensitive or systems-level work.
• A deep understanding of Rust ownership, lifetimes, and type system.
• Ability to design clean APIs using traits, generics and modular crate design.
• Strong code review skills and attention to detail in safety-critical code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high-performance Rust libraries and services for cheminformatics.
• Implement new cheminformatics algorithms as specified by SMEs.
• Review algorithm specifications for feasibility and clarity before implementation.
• Integrate Rust components with existing C++ code via safe FFI boundaries.
• Serve as a primary code reviewer to protect architectural consistency.
• Own the test strategy including unit, integration and property-based tests.
• Mentor junior developers on idiomatic Rust and clean architecture.
• Collaborate with Glasgow, Germany and France teams.

Skills

Rust programming

Ownership model

Concurrency in Rust

Code review

Linux development

FFI with C++

Rust toolchain

Performance-focused

Tools

C++

Python

Docker

FFI tooling

Job description

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd in Glasgow is seeking an experienced Rust Software Engineer to join a small, growing team. You will build high-performance Rust components and turn complex scientific algorithms into safe, efficient code, integrating with the company\'s established C++ codebase.

You\'ll collaborate with chemistry SMEs and colleagues in Germany and France, mentor junior developers, and help define the architecture and testing strategies for robust software in a hybrid