Rust Systems Engineer, Together AI

Inference

$160-240k

+ Equity

Rust

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

4 days a week in office

Cloud platform for building generative AI

Be an early applicant

Cloud platform for building generative AI

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechSaaSCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

$160-240k

+ Equity

Rust

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

4 days a week in office

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

If you are passionate about developing high-performance systems, we want to hear from you
Demonstrated proficiency in Rust programming language and ecosystem
Strong experience with Rust frameworks namely axum, tokio, jemalloc, serde, rayon, and/or crossbeam
Deep understanding of concurrent programming and multiprocessing patterns
Experience developing and optimizing orchestration and scheduling algorithms
Knowledge of distributed systems principles and design
Experience interfacing Rust services with RPC components
Ability to optimize systems for performance, reliability, and resource efficiency
Solid understanding of memory management and performance profiling

Desirable

Experience with one or more ML inference frameworks (HuggingFace TGI, NVIDIA Dynamo, Candle, Pixi, uv, llguidance)
Background in designing and implementing high-throughput, low-latency systems
Knowledge of disaggregated serving architectures and continuous batching algorithms for ML workloads
Familiarity with ML/AI inference systems and performance optimization techniques
Experience with system benchmarking and performance analysis

What the job involves

Together AI is seeking a Rust Systems Engineer to join our Inference Engine team, focusing on optimizing and enhancing the performance of our AI inference systems
This position offers the chance to collaborate closely with AI researchers and engineers to create cutting-edge AI solutions. Join us in shaping the future at Together AI!

Our take

Founded in 2022, Together AI is a research-driven AI company that operates a cloud platform for building and running generative AI. The company also contributes to open-source research, models and datasets to advance the use of machine learning.

Together AI's platform enables developers, researchers and businesses to train, fine-tune and deploy generative AI for their needs. With Generative AI gaining a lot of attention recently, the company has some high-profile competitors such as ChatGPT, but its focus on research makes it stand out.

The company has an incredibly strong start, evidenced by its substantial funding and Unicorn status. It is using these funds to expand its AI Acceleration Cloud product and prepare a large deployment of its GPUs, all while securing its position as an open-source model-building platform.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2025

$305m

SERIES B

Mar 2024

$106m

SERIES A

Total funding: $533.5m

Company benefits

Competitive health insurance plans
Dental and vision insurance
Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
Mental health support and services
Income protection & retirement
401(k) plan
AD&D insurance
Life insurance
STD & LTD insurance
Monthly team lunches
Flexible time off policy
Team-driven celebrations and events
Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax bene

Company HQ

Design District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Ce Zhang

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously Professor at ETH Zurich, Postdoc Researcher at Stanford University and Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Vipul Ved Prakash

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously Senior Director at Apple, CEO and CTO at Topsy and Founder at Cloudmark.

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