Software Developer (Rust) - 40986

Turing; Kolkata; Remote; INR 893,000 - 1,786,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaboration on cutting-edge AI projects

Flexible hours

Contractor status

Job summary

A leading AI company in Kolkata is seeking a Rust Developer for a cutting-edge project on AI-assisted Rust development. The role involves writing memory-safe Rust code, debugging, and optimizing existing solutions. Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in Rust and industry experience in high-quality software development. This is a contract role requiring 20–40 hours per week with a commitment to overlap with PST.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Rust (ownership, borrowing, lifetimes).
• Proven industry experience in high-quality software development.
• Familiarity with Rust frameworks, libraries, and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality Rust code for complex problems.
• Implement features focusing on ownership rules and memory safety.
• Refactor and optimize existing code without regressions.
• Debug concurrency, ownership, and memory issues.
• Manage dependencies, feature flags, and dev environments.
• Apply best practices in error handling, concurrency safety, and efficient memory usage.

Skills

Rust expertise

Debugging skills

Memory safety knowledge

Multi-threading knowledge

Job description

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Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies. We partner with leading AI labs to advance frontier capabilities (reasoning, coding, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM, agentic behavior) and build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical challenges.

Role Overview

We’re seeking Rust Developers to work on a cutting-edge project evaluating AI-assisted Rust development. You’ll work with real-world Rust codebases—implementing features, debugging, refactoring, and writing tests to ensure memory safety and correctness.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality Rust code for complex problems.
• Implement features with a focus on ownership rules, type correctness, and memory safety.
• Refactor and optimize existing code without regressions.
• Debug concurrency, ownership, and memory issues.
• Manage dependencies, feature flags, and dev environments.
• Apply best practices in error handling, concurrency safety, and efficient memory usage.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in Rust (ownership, borrowing, lifetimes).
• Proven industry experience in high-quality software development.
• Familiarity with Rust frameworks, libraries, and tooling.
• Experience with Rust’s testing ecosystem (unit, integration, property-based).
• Knowledge of multi-threading and async programming.
• Strong debugging and refactoring skills.

Perks of Freelancing with Turing

• Collaborate on cutting-edge AI projects with leading LLM companies.
• Commitment: 20–40 hrs/week (min. 4 hrs/day, with 4 hrs overlap with PST).
• Type: Contractor (no medical/paid leave).
• Duration: 1 month.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development and Technology
• Information and Internet

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