Senior Platform AI Engineer - Rust Backend (Remote)

Clearstreet; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company equity

401k matching

Gender neutral parental leave

Full medical, dental and vision insu r

Lunch stipends

Job summary

Clear Street in the United States is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build the core AI platform powering a copilot inside a new AI-native trading experience. You will design a high-performance Rust backend that supports streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of models and tools.

Collaborating with product and frontend, you will create robust APIs, security controls, and observability, while translating complex financial workflows into

Qualifications

• 8+ years of programming experience
• Strong knowledge of systems programming fundamentals
• Experience designing production APIs/services with observability and security
• Ability to define platform requirements end-to-end

Responsibilities

• Build the core AI platform powering a copilot inside a new AI-native trading experience
• Develop a high-performance backend in Rust that supports streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of model + tools
• Design robust APIs and runtime components for AI capabilities: authentication/authorization, rate limits, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks
• Build safe action infrastructure for trading workflows: deterministic order previews, confirmation flows, idempotent tool calls, and comprehensive audit logs
• Partner with product and frontend to enable great AI-native UX patterns (streaming, citations/grounding, “why” explanations, reversible actions)
• Develop a deep understanding of the business domain and help translate it into secure, resilient platform primitives

Skills

Rust

Postgres

TypeScript

React

APIs

Distributed systems

Tools

Tokio

Async Rust

PostgreSQL

Job description

Clear Street in the United States is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build the core AI platform powering a copilot inside a new AI-native trading experience. You will design a high-performance Rust backend that supports streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of models and tools.

Collaborating with product and frontend, you will create robust APIs, security controls, and observability, while translating complex financial workflows into