Senior Rust Engineer — AI-Native, Mission-Critical Systems

Adelphi Data; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Adelphi is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape technical direction and architecture for a Rust-based AI deployment platform. You will write substantial code, especially in Rust, and own DevOps practices around Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, and cloud infrastructure.

You will work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment focused on national security challenges, leveraging LLM tooling and AI to deliver robust services for government workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in senior or higher roles with architecture ownership of production systems.
• Proficient Rust with production services shipped.
• Strong Python skills and web frameworks.
• Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform experience.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction and architecture for the platform.
• Write a large share of code in Rust for core gateway and services.
• Oversee DevOps/Kubernetes practices and infrastructure integration.
• Collaborate with team to ship, support and debug mission-critical services.

Skills

Rust

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

LLM tooling

API design

Tools

Argo CD

Helm

EKS

Terraform

Job description

Adelphi is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape technical direction and architecture for a Rust-based AI deployment platform. You will write substantial code, especially in Rust, and own DevOps practices around Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, and cloud infrastructure.

You will work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment focused on national security challenges, leveraging LLM tooling and AI to deliver robust services for government workloads.