Remote Principal Rust Engineer, AI Platform Infrastructure

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United States

Remote

USD 230,000 - 300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Legion is seeking a Principal Rust Engineer to join a remote USA team, focusing on building and maintaining the core infrastructure of our AI platform. You will contribute to high-performance Rust components, influence architecture, and ensure reliability with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.

You will work across teams, support ML workflows, and help scale a secure, edge-ready AI platform under government contracting constraints.

Qualifications

US Citizenship or Greencard is required due to US Government contract requirements.
15+ years of software and platform engineering experience.
Experience building platform infrastructure and backend systems that serve multiple products and engineering teams.
Experience in Rust, with expertise in designing and developing high-performance systems.

Responsibilities

Design and develop foundational components and frameworks for the Agentic AI platform.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create platform solutions for developers.
Stay current with design patterns, techniques, and technologies to attract developers to platforms.
Work with ML engineers to support ML workflows and enterprise deployment.
Provide production support and troubleshoot performance and scalability challenges.