Senior Rust & Compiler Systems Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior or Staff Rust, Compiler, and Systems Engineer to tackle hard, open-ended engineering problems across abstraction layers. The role is onsite and full-time, centered on building and improving production Rust and the compiler toolchain.

The candidate should have deep experience with Rust, and a strong foundation in compilers or systems programming (LLVM/MLIR, backends/frontends, IR, optimization, code generation, runtimes).

Qualifications

• Strong Rust background with focus on compiler development or language runtimes.
• Experience across compiler backends/frontends, IR, and code generation.
• Solid systems programming foundation and ability to work across abstraction layers.

Responsibilities

• Develop production Rust code and contribute to the compiler toolchain.
• Collaborate across teams to move between abstraction layers and solve hard problems.
• Improve tooling, interfaces, tests, and engineering practices around Rust and the compiler.

Skills

Rust

Compiler

Systems engineering

LLVM/MLIR

C++

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in San Jose, CA is seeking a Senior or Staff Rust, Compiler, and Systems Engineer to tackle hard, open-ended engineering problems across abstraction layers. The role is onsite and full-time, centered on building and improving production Rust and the compiler toolchain.

The candidate should have deep experience with Rust, and a strong foundation in compilers or systems programming (LLVM/MLIR, backends/frontends, IR, optimization, code generation, runtimes).