Principal Rust Software Engineer (AI)

black.ai; Kansas City (KS); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI company is seeking a Principal Rust Software Engineer to develop high-performance AI features and solutions within their cloud platform. With a focus on exceptional engineering and problem-solving, this role is pivotal in redefining the future of AI applications. Successful candidates will have a track record of excellence in Rust or C/C++ and a passion for building innovative technology in collaborative environments.

Qualifications

• 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ years professional C / C++ experience.
• Experience in designing and implementing distributed data and AI systems.
• Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance AI features in Spice.ai.
• Contribute to the Spice.ai Cloud Platform.
• Lead initiatives to enhance developer experiences.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Leadership

Distributed Systems

High Performance Standards

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Rust

C/C++

Apache

Cloud-native Development

Job description

Building data-driven AI applications and agents is too complex, even for advanced developers. At Spice AI, we're making it simpler by helping developers combine code, data, and AI to build truly intelligent, decision-making systems. Our mission is to make this as easy as creating a modern web page.

We created Spice.ai OSS , a portable AI database written in Rust with a unified SQL interface to query, materialize, and accelerate data from any source, co-located with machine learning models. By bringing compute, data, and models together, Spice OSS enables secure AI-Feedback-Loops (AI-Fly-Wheels) for apps and agents to learn and adapt. We just announced the 1.0-stable release of Spice.ai OSS.

We're also building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform , offering managed, cloud-scale Spice.ai OSS along with tools for high-performance SQL, machine learning training, and inference in an interconnected AI backend-as-a-service.

At Spice AI, we hire for MEI : Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence. We're looking for exceptional, top-tier engineers - A players - who are driven to solve hard problems and push the boundaries of what's possible for AI.

We're looking for a Principal Rust Software Engineer to contribute to ML, GenAI, RAG, and agent development in Spice.ai OSS. In this role, you'll design and build high-performance AI features in Spice.ai, libraries like llama.cppmistral-rs, and enterprise solutions including NVidia NIM (Spice AI is an NVidia Inception program member).

If you're passionate about open source, distributed systems, RAG and AI internals, and agentic applications we want to hear from you.

Who we are looking for

• You are an exceptional engineer.
• You are a problem solver. You start customer problems and figure out how to solve them with technology.
• You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone.
• You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what's possible.
• You care about meaningful work. Your work is more than a job.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations, you lead by creating clarity.
• You are passionate about high performance and have unreasonably high standards.

What we're looking for

• 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C / C++ experience
• Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production distributed, data, and AI systems.
• A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.
• Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust / Golang.

In this role, you'll

• Work side-by-side with the founders as a leader and outstanding contributor to the Spice.ai open-source project.
• Contribute to designing and building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform.
• Take ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and deliver exceptional developer experiences.
• Work directly with enterprise customers and build with them to enable their scenarios.

Your first 90-days

• Your first week - contribute a bug fix or minor improvement to the Spice.ai OSS project
• Your first month - ramp up and contribute meaningful improvements to the Spice.ai OSS project
• 30-60 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area
• 60-90 days - propose and execute on aligned technical strategy going forward

About Spice AI

Founded in June 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, Spice AI creates technology to help developers build intelligent applications and agents that learn and adapt.

Before co-founding Spice AI, Luke was the co-creator of Azure Incubations in the Office of the Azure CTO, where he led cross-functional engineering teams to create and develop technologies including Dapr and OAM

Spice AI is backed by some of the top industry angel investors and leaders, including Nat FriedmanMark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, and Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, who is also on the board.

Spice AI also has notable VC backing from Madrona Venture GroupBasis Set VenturesFounders' Co-op, and Picus Capital

Learn more :

TechCrunch and GeekWire

• About the team at

spice.ai / careers

• The Spice.ai general availability

announcement blog post

• The Spice.ai OSS project

announcement blog post

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