Senior Rust Engineer (AI-Native Industrial Data Platform)

hioki singapore pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hioki Singapore PTE. LTD. seeks a Senior Rust Engineer to build the core engine behind our AI-native industrial data and analytics platform.

You will develop the runtime, SDK, data processing, integrations and platform services powering customer applications across industrial, edge and cloud environments. This role is based in Singapore and works closely with teams in Singapore and Japan. You will contribute to hardware-software-data integrations and optimize performance for large-scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong Rust expertise and systems programming knowledge.
• Experience designing libraries, SDKs or platform APIs.
• Strong Linux development experience.
• Experience with networking, data processing or distributed systems.
• Excellent debugging and performance-analysis skills.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core platform services in Rust.
• Design and improve SDKs and developer APIs.
• Build high-performance data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Develop connectors for industrial systems, APIs and external data sources.
• Improve platform reliability, observability and performance.
• Support edge and cloud deployment environments.
• Collaborate with application engineers on developer experience.
• Use AI coding agents for implementation and testing.
• Own test strategy and quality for safety-adjacent software.

Skills

Rust programming

Systems programming

Concurrency

SDK design

Linux

Networking

Distributed systems

Debugging

Performance analysis

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related

Tools

Tokio

FFI bindings

gRPC/Protobuf

Docker

Kubernetes

MQTT

OPC UA

Modbus

BACnet

Edge computing

ML inference

OT security

Job description

Senior Rust Engineer (AI-Native Industrial Data Platform)

About the Role

As a Senior Rust Engineer, you will build and evolve the core engine behind Hioki’s AI-native industrial data and analytics platform. You will develop the runtime, SDK, data processing, integrations and platform services that power customer and product applications across industrial, edge and cloud environments.

This role is based in Singapore and works closely with teams in Singapore and Japan. If you want to build products where hardware, software, data and real-world engineering come together, we would like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core platform services in Rust.
• Design and improve SDKs and developer APIs.
• Build high-performance data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Develop connectors for industrial systems, APIs and external data sources.
• Improve platform reliability, observability and performance.
• Support edge and cloud deployment environments.
• Work closely with application engineers to improve the developer experience.
• Use AI-assisted development extensively for implementation, testing, debugging and documentation.
• Own the test strategy and quality bar for safety-adjacent industrial software, including automated coverage and regression safeguards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong professional experience with Rust.
• Strong understanding of systems programming and concurrency.
• Experience designing libraries, SDKs or platform APIs.
• Strong Linux development experience.
• Experience with networking, data processing or distributed systems.
• Strong debugging and performance-analysis skills.
• Comfortable using AI coding agents and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Nice-to-have

• Tokio / async Rust
• FFI and language bindings
• gRPC / Protocol Buffers
• Embedded Linux
• MQTT / OPC UA / Modbus / BACnet
• Time-series data
• Edge computing
• Docker / Kubernetes
• ML inference or AI platform integration
• Industrial software or measurement systems
• Data security - experience in OT security specifically secure device provisioning, protocol security (MQTT/OPC UA/Modbus over TLS), and compliance (data residency for edge)

About Hioki

Hioki is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and sales of high-precision electrical test and measurement instruments. Our solutions support a wide range of industries, including automotive, electronic components, infrastructure, environmental systems, renewable energy, and battery technologies. With a strong heritage of innovation and quality, Hioki continues to advance measurement technologies that enable safer, more efficient, and more sustainable industrial development worldwide.